Lexical-semantic representation of body parts in Serbian child language
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چکیده
Although words for human body parts appear early in children's vocabulary, relatively little is known about the conceptual and semantic development related to part preschool school ages. In this paper, we examine how children at ages 5, 7 9 use expressions refer its parts, these correspond segmentation lexicalization of terms adults. Participants were asked name that depicted drawings showing whole (front or back) face, with a red dot marking specific part. The results comparison between adults indicate most arms, legs, face there gradual age, reflected decrease holonyms an increase meronyms naming parts. However, such hierarchical organization could not be confirmed other (trunk, shoulders, neck, head, some face), revealing different pathways acquisition words. Children all ages, especially 7and 9-year-olds, seek alternative solutions which labels are missing their vocabulary. cases, they adjacent internal organs, skeleton, prepositional phrases surrounding areas. compared findings previous studies, while lexical-semantic change lexicon child language discussed. light developmental on change, language.
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عنوان ژورنال: Psihološka istraživanja
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2560-306X', '0352-7379']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/psistra26-44308