NVESTIGATING LEXICAL ACQUISITION PATTERNS: CONTEXT AND COGNITION



children were looking at the book and on one of the pages they saw what the teacher called
“feber”. The children didn’t know what this was and they asked the teacher to tell them
about it. So the teacher said that the
“feber” is a tent made by North American Indians from
animal skin. After that, the children were so excited that they asked the teacher whether they
could make one like this.

Analogy condition

“Abez is like... ”

Robert and his mother went to party last Saturday. There were children playing around and
child that was singing. The child with the orange shirt was playing an
“abez”. Robert really
liked the music that was coming form it. He asked his mother to tell him more about it. His
mother told him that we make sounds with the
“abez” like we make sounds with the flute,
by blowing. From that moment, Robert knew how someone could make such nice sound,
and he spent the whole night listening to that music.

“What is a feber like? ”

Kevin and his mother went to Disneyland during holidays. In one of the corners of the
Disneyland there was
“feber”. They saw that most of the children liked it, and so they spent
much of their time there. Kevin didn’t know what this was, so he asked his mummy to tell
him about it. His mummy told him that the
“feber” was for the Indians like the house is for
them. Kevin then understood why all the children had spent most of their time there. It was
something they had never seen before.

Lexical contrast condition

“Abez is different from... ”

Every week in the school, the children had music lesson where each child played different
kind of musical instrument. Most of the children liked listening to the piano and to the guitar.
But today a new child came in the group who was playing neither a piano nor a
guitar. He
was playing an
“abez”. This was making sound in a different way. It was also kind of sound
that they never heard before. So, all the children stopped listening to the piano and to the
guitar and they concentrated on the
“abez”

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