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Facilitating the acquisition of UNDER by means of IN and ON – a training study in Polish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2006

KATHARINA J. ROHLFING
KATHARINA J. ROHLFING
Affiliation:
Universität Bielefeld
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Abstract

Forty Polish children aged between 1;8 and 2;3 were trained over two training sessions in the comprehension of the preposition POD [UNDER]. In the experiment, two variables were manipulated: a within subjects variable of SITUATION and a between subjects variable of LINGUISTIC INPUT. The effect of situation could be found in all trained groups, showing that children's understanding in familiar and transfer situations differed significantly from the performance of the control group in the post-test. The results further suggest that depending on the type of a situation, the linguistic task requires different word learning abilities from a child.

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Research Article
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 51 - 69
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

A part of the research reported in this paper took place within the graduate programme Task Oriented Communication (GK 256) at the Bielefeld University in Germany, and was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I would like to thank Hans Strohner for his advice in designing this study. The organization of the study and data collection would not have been possible without Joanna Kosiedowska and Marzena Beigelt supporting me enormously. This manuscript was prepared during a fellowship within the postdoctorate programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Emmy Noether Programme (DFG). I am particularly grateful to Karla McGregor and Soonja Choi for their valuable comments and discussions on earlier versions of this paper.