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Direct linkBooth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R.; Huang, Yi Ting – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Three experiments document that conceptual knowledge influences lexical acquisition in infancy. A novel target object was initially labeled with a novel word. In both yes-no (Experiment 1) and forced-choice (Experiment 2) tasks, 2-year-olds' subsequent extensions were mediated by the conceptual description of the targets. When targets were…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedMeints, Kerstin; Plunkett, Kim; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two experiments used the preferential looking task to assess early word comprehension in 12- to 24-month olds. Results indicated that when target stimuli were named, 12-month olds displayed an increase in target looking for typical--but not atypical--targets, whereas 18- and 24-month olds displayed increases for both. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Mintz, Toben H. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Two hundred forty English-speaking toddlers (24- and 36-month-olds) heard novel adjectives applied to familiar objects (Experiment 1) and novel objects (Experiment 2). Children were successful in mapping adjectives to target properties only when information provided by the noun, in conjunction with participants' knowledge of the objects, provided…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Pragmatics, Nouns, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
