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Suanda, Sumarga H.; Namy, Laura L. – Infancy, 2013
Infants' early communicative repertoires include both words and symbolic gestures. The current study examined the extent to which infants organize words and gestures in a single unified lexicon. As a window into lexical organization, eighteen-month-olds' ("N" = 32) avoidance of word-gesture overlap was examined and compared with…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary, Nonverbal Communication, Organization
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Kucker, Sarah C.; Samuelson, Larissa K. – Infancy, 2012
Recent research demonstrated that although 24-month-old infants do well on the initial pairing of a novel word and novel object in fast-mapping tasks, they are unable to retain the mapping after a 5 min delay. The current study examines the role of familiarity with the objects and words on infants' ability to bridge between the initial fast…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Infants, Language Acquisition