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Fais, Laurel; Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Fourteen-month-old infants are unable to link minimal pair nonsense words with novel objects (Stager & Werker, 1997). Might an adult's productions in a word learning context support minimal pair word-object association in these infants? We recorded a mother interacting with her 24-month-old son, and with her 5-month-old son, producing nonsense…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Mothers
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Vukatana, Ena; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
We investigated 16- and 20-month-olds' flexibility in mapping phonotactically illegal words to objects. Using an associative word-learning task, infants were presented with a training phase that either highlighted or did not highlight the referential status of a novel label. Infants were then habituated to two novel objects, each paired with a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Foreign Countries, Phonology