Research Design -- drawing pictures or phtos ?

[Roberta Golinkoff]

We have found [Liu, J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Sak, K. (2001). One cow 
does not an animal make!: Children can
extend novel words at the superordinate level. Child Development, 72, 
1674- 1694], as had researchers before us,  that whether you use 
pictures or real objects really matters to young children on these 
forced-choice triad tasks.  It depends on children's age as the younger 
they are, the more they need the richness and detail found in objects 
--> photos --> drawings in that order.  Also see [Golinkoff, R. M., 
Shuff-Bailey, M., Olguin, R., & Ruan, W. (1995). Young children extend 
novel
words at the basic level: Evidence for the principle of the categorical 
scope. Developmental Psychology,
31, 494-507.] for more stimulus ideas and ideas on what in the forced 
choice paradigm makes a difference for children showing taxonomic 
responses.

Good luck!
Roberta


On Dec 13, 2005, at 12:58 AM, UG, NCKU :)) wrote:

> Dear Info-CHILDES members,
>  
> I'm now conduct a research in which normal hearing and 
> hearing-impaired children's cognition will be tested respectively 
> based on three constraints of lexical learning (shape, whole object, 
> and taxonomic) by means of matching.
>  
> When matching, the chidren have to pick one item from the two to match 
> the standard one. One of the two items are shape-like as the standard 
> one while the other has certain semantic relationship as the standard. 
> Therefore, the following items is a set: Butterfly-Hair bow-Tiger, in 
> which butterfly is the standard one.
>  
> And my research question is,
> In the lexical development for hearing-impaired children in Taiwan, is 
> the noun-category bias really a noun-shape bias?
>  
> And the problem I come up with now is which kind of following material 
> I sould use when conducting such experiments -- drawing picture or 
> real photo?
>  
> The previous literatures I have read adapt drawing pictures as 
> materials.
> And the current research is mainly based on:
>  
> Poulin-Bubois, D., Klein, B. P., Graham, S. A., & Frank, L. (1993). Is 
> the noun-category bias a noun-shape bias? In E. V. Clark (Ed.), The 
> proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual child language research forum 
> (pp. 221-226). Stanford: Stanford Linguistics Association.
>  !
> Many thanks.
>  
> Best,
> Hsin-chin.
>  
> Hsin-chin Wang
> Graduate Student
> College of Liberal Art
> Foreign Language and Literature Department, NCKU, Taiwan
> eugenew45 at yahoo.com.tw
> eugenew.languag at msa.hinet.net
>
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