An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.17 The Lexical Ability of Pre-School Children
(Report 66, 1980. 514 pages)
We predicted that acceleration in the development of
linguistic ability of pre-school children would occur with the
spread of television, picture books, etc. This book reports
on a survey conducted on the lexical ability of pre-school
children and contains the results of the following four
surveys.
1. Adjective Test- We surveyed the semantic comprehension of a
total of 26 adjectives divided into 13 pairs (adjectives
which express properties and states,
'big'/'small,' 'numerous'/ 'few,' 'fat'/'thin,' etc.)
2. Time and Space Words Test- We surveyed the semantic
comprehension of a total of 46 words divided into 11 groups of
nouns which express time and space,
'above'/'below,' 'outside'/'inside,' 'morning'/'night,'
'spring'/'summer'/'fall'/'winter,' etc.
3. Verb Test- We surveyed the semantic comprehension of 220
basic verbs, for example, 'raise,' 'get up,' 'fall
down,' 'rejoice,' etc.
4. Questionnaire on Linguistic Life- This questionnaire was
developed to investigate the relation between children's
lexical ability and their home environment and linguistic
customs.
The semantic comprehension tests for vocabulary in 1, 2,
and 3 were all conducted by controlling conditions with picture
cards. We conducted the survey evaluating the children's
semantic comprehension of vocabulary on three levels.
MURAISI Syo~zo~ and AMANO Kiyosi directed this research,
and MURAISI Syo~zo~ wrote this report.
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