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An Eye-Tracking Study of Receptive Verb Knowledge in Toddlers
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Valleau, Matthew James; Konishi, Haruka; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Arunachalam, Sudha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: We examined receptive verb knowledge in 22- to 24-month-old toddlers with a dynamic video eye-tracking test. The primary goal of the study was to examine the utility of eye-gaze measures that are commonly used to study noun knowledge for studying verb knowledge. Method: Forty typically developing toddlers participated. They viewed 2…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Verbs, Receptive Language, Toddlers
An Eye-Tracking Study of Receptive Verb Knowledge in Toddlers
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Valleau, Matthew James; Konishi, Haruka; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Arunachalam, Sudha – Grantee Submission, 2018
Purpose: We examined receptive verb knowledge in 22- to 24-month-old toddlers with a dynamic video eye-tracking test. The primary goal of the study was to examine the utility of eye-gaze measures that are commonly used to study noun knowledge for studying verb knowledge. Method: Forty typically developing toddlers participated. They viewed 2…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Receptive Language, Verbs, Correlation
Are Linguistic and Social-Pragmatic Abilities Separable in Neurotypical Infants and Infants Later Diagnosed with ASD?
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Yamashiro, Amy; Vouloumanos, Athena – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Adult humans process communicative interactions by recognizing that information is being communicated through speech (linguistic ability) and simultaneously evaluating how to respond appropriately (social-pragmatic ability). These abilities may originate in infancy. Infants understand how speech communicates in social interactions, helping them…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Interpersonal Competence, Speech Communication, Autism
Two-Year-Olds Interpret Novel Phonological Neighbors as Familiar Words
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Swingley, Daniel – Developmental Psychology, 2016
When children hear a novel word in a context presenting a novel object and a familiar one, they usually assume that the novel word refers to the novel object. In a series of experiments, we tested whether this behavior would be found when 2-year-olds interpreted novel words that differed phonologically from familiar words in only 1 sound, either a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Phonology, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Learning Verb Syntax via Listening: New Evidence from 22-Month-Olds
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Messenger, Katherine; Yuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Children recruit verb syntax to guide verb interpretation. We asked whether 22-month-olds spontaneously encode information about a particular novel verb's syntactic properties through listening to sentences, retain this information in long-term memory over a filled delay, and retrieve it to guide interpretation upon hearing the same novel verb…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Can Babies Learn to Read? A Randomized Trial of Baby Media
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Neuman, Susan B.; Kaefer, Tanya; Pinkham, Ashley; Strouse, Gabrielle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Targeted to children as young as 3 months old, there is a growing number of baby media products that claim to teach babies to read. This randomized controlled trial was designed to examine this claim by investigating the effects of a best-selling baby media product on reading development. One hundred and seventeen infants, ages 9 to 18 months,…
Descriptors: Infants, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Groups