Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children

The paper concerns psycholinguistic phenomena connected with meta-language, meta-linguistic awareness and children’s semantic skills. The main aim of empirical activities was to analyze psychological and linguistic conditionings of acquiring the meanings of words by 4- and 6-year-old children. It wa...

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Main Authors: Katarzyna Jachimowska, Paulina Pawłowska
Format: Article
Language:Polish
Published: Lodz University Press 2020-11-01
Series:Logopaedica Lodziensia
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/logopedica/article/view/8700
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spelling doaj-958e3719a3f844d6884f207071b705562020-11-27T09:21:41ZpolLodz University PressLogopaedica Lodziensia2544-72382657-43812020-11-014617210.18778/2544-7238.04.048588Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School ChildrenKatarzyna Jachimowska0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6770-3988Paulina Pawłowska1University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Philology and Logopaedics, Department of Contemporary Polish Language, 171/173 Pomorska street, 90-236 ŁódźUniversity of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Philology and Logopaedics, Department of Contemporary Polish Language, 171/173 Pomorska street, 90-236 ŁódźThe paper concerns psycholinguistic phenomena connected with meta-language, meta-linguistic awareness and children’s semantic skills. The main aim of empirical activities was to analyze psychological and linguistic conditionings of acquiring the meanings of words by 4- and 6-year-old children. It was examined how children understand the meaning of words from two categories: home and family. The analyses and conclusions on the creation of meaning presented in the paper are focused around the symbiosis of two planes: cognitive and linguistic. An analysis of the collected empirical material shows that their compilation reveals the unique nature of children’s meta-language reflection, the character of concepts and notion profiles which are closely determined by mental processes.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/logopedica/article/view/8700meta-languagemeaningdefining
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Paulina Pawłowska
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Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children
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Paulina Pawłowska
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title Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children
title_short Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children
title_full Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children
title_fullStr Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children
title_full_unstemmed Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children
title_sort psychological determinants of meta-linguistic skills by pre-school children
publisher Lodz University Press
series Logopaedica Lodziensia
issn 2544-7238
2657-4381
publishDate 2020-11-01
description The paper concerns psycholinguistic phenomena connected with meta-language, meta-linguistic awareness and children’s semantic skills. The main aim of empirical activities was to analyze psychological and linguistic conditionings of acquiring the meanings of words by 4- and 6-year-old children. It was examined how children understand the meaning of words from two categories: home and family. The analyses and conclusions on the creation of meaning presented in the paper are focused around the symbiosis of two planes: cognitive and linguistic. An analysis of the collected empirical material shows that their compilation reveals the unique nature of children’s meta-language reflection, the character of concepts and notion profiles which are closely determined by mental processes.
topic meta-language
meaning
defining
url https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/logopedica/article/view/8700
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