NVESTIGATING LEXICAL ACQUISITION PATTERNS: CONTEXT AND COGNITION



post test (Mann-Whitney: Z=2.9, p<.005) (see Table in Appendix 5.10. The same pattern was
evident within each age group. Significant differences were found for the 6 years-old both
for the immediate (Mann-Whitney: Z=2.6, p<.05) and the delayed post test (Mann-Whitney:
Z=2.9, p<.005). Whether the same pattern was evident within each linguistic condition was
also investigated. The same pattern was found for the Analogy condition during the
immediate (Mann-Whitney: Z=2.01, p<.05) and the delayed post tests (Mann-Whitney:
Z=2.2, p<.05). The same pattern was found for the Contrast condition for both post tests. A
trend for significance was found during the immediate post test, while signifies : ɪL differences
were found during the delayed post test (Mann-Whitney: Z=3.2, p<.005).

Error analysis

Different sentences were provided by the children in the sentence generation task. An Error
analysis was carried out to identify the different types of properties that children focused on
in their made up sentences. The different properties are presented in Table 5.17

Table 5.17          Types of properties identified in children’s sentences

Properties____________________

______________Description__________________________________

Don’t know

If they did not provide any answer

Idiosyncratic properties

Sentences that focused on idiosyncratic relations
e.g "they are friends” for abez and flute

Perceptual properties

If the sentences focused on perceptual properties,
e.g they have the same shape for abez and Hute.

Functional properties

Eg. “ the boy plays music with it, for abez, or “the
Indians make iΓ for the feber.

Semantic properties

When they categorized the items by using a basic
level word, e.g. “’they are recorders” for al,. z and
flute, or a superordinate level word, e.g. ‘7. у are
_______instruments” or “they are houses.__

The distribution of children’s responses across testing is presented in Table 5.18 for both
target words, since children’s responses on the sentence generation task did not differ by
target item.

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