問題詳情

19 Children use the word “apple” to refer to similar round objects such as ball and tomatoes but are able to correctly pick outthe apple from a collection of such items. This phenomenon is called ______ to describe children generalization of themeaning of a word beyond the sense in the adult language.
(A)underextension
(B)overextension
(C)conventionality
(D)extendibility

參考答案

答案:B
難度:適中0.666667
統計:A(4),B(40),C(6),D(4),E(0)

用户評論

【用戶】107年考上英語正式:)

【年級】高一下

【評論內容】資料來源:http://everything2.com/title/Overextension+and+underextensionUnderextensionUnderextension is when a person uses a word in a very restricted fashion, most commonly seen used bychildren that are just gaining mastery over language. To give an example of underextension, a young boythat sees a dog in the park will not say it is a dog, for only THEIR dog is a dog. In their mind, they think that a word is referring to a very specific instance of a certain concept other than all types and examples of the concept. (Studies done by: Caplan & Barr, 1989) You may point at the st...

【用戶】107年考上英語正式:)

【年級】高一下

【評論內容】資料來源:http://everything2.com/title/Overextension+and+underextensionUnderextensionUnderextension is when a person uses a word in a very restricted fashion, most commonly seen used bychildren that are just gaining mastery over language. To give an example of underextension, a young boythat sees a dog in the park will not say it is a dog, for only THEIR dog is a dog. In their mind, they think that a word is referring to a very specific instance of a certain concept other than all types and examples of the concept. (Studies done by: Caplan & Barr, 1989) You may point at the st...

【用戶】imredapple

【年級】小一下

【評論內容】Overextension when a child uses a word in a context or manner that is inconsistent with, but in some way related to adult meaning of the word-term is extended to concepts beyond the adult concept-daddy for adult men-cat for all four-legged animals-bye-bye to greet visitor Underextension when a child uses a word for only a limited subset of the contexts used by the adult-cat for the home pet only-truck for the toy truck onl...