Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Vocabulary Development
- 18 Months Around 50 words, 10
words per day
- Items acquired
- Entities: People (Mommy, Daddy,
bay), food, animal, clothes, toys,
vehicles
- Properties: Hot, allgone, more,
dirty, cold, here, there
- Actions: up, sit, see, eat, go,
down
- Personal-Social: Hi, bye, no, yes,
please, thank-you
- Age 6: 14.000 words, 20 words per
day
- 17 years around 60.000 words
- Strategies for acquiring word
meaning
- The whole Object Assumpsion:
A new word refers to a whole
object
- The Type Assumption: A new word
refers to a type of thing, not just to a
particular thing
- The Basic Level Assumption: A new
word refers to objects that are alike
in basic ways (appearance,
behaviour, etc)
- Meaning errors
- Overextensions
- The meaning of the child´s word is more
general or inclusive than that of the
corresponding adult form
- Ex: An example is when a child refers to
all animals as 'doggie' or refers to a lion
as a 'kitty.'
- Underextension
- Underextension involves not
applying a new word to objects
that are included in the meaning
of that word.
- For example, a child might learn the word dog, but might
only use it to refer to his own dog rather than all of the other
dogs that he encounters.
- Verb Meaning
- Children usually tend to
confuse the verb's meaning
- For example the verb -fill- means 'pour'
rather than 'make full'
- Dimensional Terms
- Children acquire in a
relatively fixed order sixe and
dimensions
- For example: Big, small, tall-short,
long-short, high-low