A Case Study Of The Lexical Semantic Relationship Of Four-year-old Chinese Children

Today linguistics has entered the modern era dominated by semantics.Individual's language acquisition process is actually a gradual building of individual cognitive process of semantic network,this network has initially built in the six years old previously.In this process,children learned the lexical relationship and build the network of concept,and this kind of ability is quite amazing.The nature of the lexical semantic relationship is the concept relationship,as an important theoretical approaches of structuralist semantics,semantic relationships can uncover the mystery of language mechanisms,so that the semantics shaped like quagmire world is no longer difficult to overcome.This study,which has been a good entry of "XX 4-year-old segment everyday conversation naturally corpus"(890,000 words)for machine processing and artificial proofreading,producted the "4-year-old Chinese children semantic relationship vocabulary",and conducted a semantic relationship study of synonyms,antonyms,hyponymies and the whole-part words respectively.The 4-year-old child XX in this study acquired synonyms 190 group,which alleged word synonyms 131 groups,statements word synonyms 32 groups,qualifier synonyms group 27;antonyms 68 pairs,of which 28 pairs of antonyms words alleged,stating the word antonyms 14 pairs,qualifier words antonyms 26 pairs;1125 hyponymy words,the deepest layer of bit-level hierarchy reached 9,where in the hyponymy words,191 human alleging words,907 things alleged words,27 event alleged words;whole-part words 94 group,only 5 layers deepest level,in which the biological structures of the whole-part words 64 groups,non-biological structures of the whole-part words 30 groups.Through detailed description,this study tried to reveal the 4-year-old Chinese children's acquisition situation of the lexical semantic relationship.The main contents of this study:1.This study summed " children semantic relationship vocabulary" of 1426 words extracted.2.This study showed the 4-year-old Chinese children's statistical semantic vocabulary:including synonyms,antonyms,hyponymies,whole-part words of four parts.3.This study gave a law of lexical semantic relationship of the 4-year-old children:according to the case study,children aged 4 lexical semantic relationship acquisition situations,the hyponymies are the most abundant,followed by synonyms,antonyms,whole-part words slightly less.This study insists corpus study,combines quantitative and qualitative and also combines introspective and empirical method.Research is reflected in the value of innovation to break the scattered research model of traditional lexicology,implement the ideas of structuralism,try to study the children's vocabulary by the way of relationship semantics,and help to explore the formation mechanism of the semantic web rule of the Chinese children,help to depict the human cognitive mechanism of the development process,and help to deepen the study of language form.