Among Datooga pastoralists of Tanzania, an elaborate in-law naming taboo has led to the emergence of a conventionalized avoidance vocabulary used by married women. We report on a survey investigating Datooga children's knowledge of this special vocabulary. The questionnaire and our expectations were pre-registered and the results were analyzed using regression analysis. Though use of the avoidance vocabulary is gender-specific, girls were only slightly more knowledgeable than boys about avoidance words. More predictive of children's responses was sociolinguistic environment: children from more “traditional” backgrounds showed greater knowledge of avoidance words. Based on this finding, we discuss how social change may be affecting this particular kind of knowledge transmission. Low overall accuracy reveals the gradual nature of certain types of sociocultural learning. [language learning, knowledge transmission, avoidance registers]

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儿童对基于姓名的回避登记册的了解：坦桑尼亚 Datooga 的定量研究

在坦桑尼亚的达图加牧民中，一个精心设计的姻亲命名禁忌导致已婚妇女使用的约定俗成的回避词汇的出现。我们报告了一项调查 Datooga 儿童对这种特殊词汇的知识的调查。问卷和我们的期望是预先登记的，结果使用回归分析进行分析。虽然回避词汇的使用是针对性别的，但女孩对回避词汇的了解只比男孩多一点。更能预测儿童反应的是社会语言环境：来自更多“传统”背景的儿童表现出更多的回避词知识。基于这一发现，我们讨论了社会变化如何影响这种特殊的知识传播。总体准确性低揭示了某些类型的社会文化学习的渐进性。[语言学习、知识传递、回避记录]