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Felix Hao Wang; Meili Luo; Nan Li – Developmental Science, 2024
In word learning, learners need to identify the referent of words by leveraging the fact that the same word may co-occur with different sets of objects. This raises the question, what do children remember from "in the moment" that they can use for cross-situational learning? Furthermore, do children represent pictures of familiar animals…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Memory, Language Acquisition
Ruffman, Ted; Chen, Lisa; Lorimer, Ben; Vanier, Sarah; Edgar, Kate; Scarf, Damian; Taumoepeau, Mele – Developmental Science, 2023
There are two broad views of children's theory of mind. The mentalist view is that it emerges in infancy and is possibly innate. The minimalist view is that it emerges more gradually in childhood and is heavily dependent on learning. According to minimalism, children initially understand behaviors rather than mental states, and they are assisted…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Infants, Language Acquisition, Infant Behavior
Bleijlevens, Natalie; Contier, Friederike; Behne, Tanya – Developmental Science, 2023
How do children succeed in learning a word? Research has shown robustly that, in ambiguous labeling situations, young children assume novel labels to refer to unfamiliar rather than familiar objects. However, ongoing debates center on the underlying mechanism: Is this behavior based on lexical constraints, guided by pragmatic reasoning, or simply…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Thinking Skills, Vocabulary Development, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Zettersten, Martin; Saffran, Jenny R. – Developmental Science, 2021
How do learners gather new information during word learning? One possibility is that learners selectively sample items that help them reduce uncertainty about new word meanings. In a series of cross-situational word learning tasks with adults and children, we manipulated the referential ambiguity of label-object pairs experienced during training…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Task Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Case Studies
Arunachalam, Sudha; Dennis, Shaun – Developmental Science, 2019
Verbs are often uttered before the events they describe. By 2 years of age, toddlers can learn from such an encounter. Hearing a novel verb in transitive sentences (e.g. "The boy lorped the cat"), even with no visual referent present, they later map it to a causative meaning (e.g. "feed") (e.g. Yuan & Fisher, [Yuan, S.,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development
de Carvalho, Alex; Crimon, Cécile; Barrault, Axel; Trueswell, John; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2021
Two word-learning experiments were conducted to investigate the understanding of negative sentences in 18- and 24-month-old children. In Experiment 1, after learning that "bamoule" means "penguin" and "pirdaling" means "cartwheeling," 18-month-olds (n = 48) increased their looking times when listening to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Sentences
Zamuner, Tania S.; Strahm, Stephanie; Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth; Page, Michael P. A. – Developmental Science, 2018
This research investigates the effect of production on 4.5- to 6-year-old children's recognition of newly learned words. In Experiment 1, children were taught four novel words in a produced or heard training condition during a brief training phase. In Experiment 2, children were taught eight novel words, and this time training condition was in a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Word Recognition
Crivello, Cristina; Phillips, Sara; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Developmental Science, 2018
Although there is mounting evidence that selective social learning begins in infancy, the psychological mechanisms underlying this ability are currently a controversial issue. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether theory of mind abilities and statistical learning skills are related to infants' selective social learning. Seventy-seven…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Social Development, Socialization
Yow, W. Quin; Li, Xiaoqian; Lam, Sarah; Gliga, Teodora; Chong, Yap Seng; Kwek, Kenneth; Broekman, Birit F. P. – Developmental Science, 2017
Research has demonstrated a bilingual advantage in how young children use referential cues such as eye gaze and pointing gesture to locate an object or to categorize objects. This study investigated the use of referential cues (i.e. eye gaze) in fast mapping in three groups of children that differed in their language exposure. One hundred and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bilingualism, Cues, Eye Movements
Gilligan, Katie A.; Hodgkiss, Alex; Thomas, Michael S. C.; Farran, Emily K. – Developmental Science, 2019
Spatial thinking is an important predictor of mathematics. However, existing data do not determine whether all spatial sub-domains are equally important for mathematics outcomes nor whether mathematics-spatial associations vary through development. This study addresses these questions by exploring the developmental relations between mathematics…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students
Fernald, Anne; Marchman, Virginia A.; Weisleder, Adriana – Developmental Science, 2013
This research revealed both similarities and striking differences in early language proficiency among infants from a broad range of advantaged and disadvantaged families. English-learning infants ("n" = 48) were followed longitudinally from 18 to 24 months, using real-time measures of spoken language processing. The first goal was to…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Infants
Pine, Karen J.; Bird, Hannah; Kirk, Elizabeth – Developmental Science, 2007
Two alternative accounts have been proposed to explain the role of gestures in thinking and speaking. The Information Packaging Hypothesis (Kita, 2000) claims that gestures are important for the conceptual packaging of information before it is coded into a linguistic form for speech. The Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis (Rauscher, Krauss & Chen, 1996)…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Nonverbal Communication, Task Analysis
Samuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Science, 2005
Two experiments explore children's spontaneous labeling of novel objects as a method to study early lexical access. The experiments also provide new evidence on children's attention to object shape when labeling objects. In Experiment 1, the spontaneous productions of 21 23- to 28-month-olds (mean 26;28) shown a set of novel, unnamed objects were…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition