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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
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
Hills, Thomas – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were compared longitudinally across six language corpora, with four corpora of language directed at…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Word Frequency
Curtin, Suzanne – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Infants at 1;2 demonstrate difficulty in accessing subtle phonetic information about newly learned word-object pairings (Stager & Werker, 1997). In this study, we examined whether or not infants can access subtle prosodic information such as lexical stress in a word learning task. We tested infants younger than 1;2 to see if they could learn two…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Infants, Associative Learning, Word Recognition

Chapman, Kathy L.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Journal of Child Language, 1989
The evolution of young children's categories, as measured by category name production, was studied. Results indicated that four sequences of category evolution were found, formed by the intersection of two factors: overlap vs. mutual exclusivity and first re-assignment separate vs. first re-assignment joint. (26 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition

Muma, John R.; Zwycewicz-Emory, Carol L. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
The present study is an attempt to apply a paradigm to the shift of verbal behavior before and after the age of seven in order to see if linguistic contexts affect verbal behavior differentially before seven or after seven. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes

Corkum, Valerie; Dunham, Philip – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Examines the CDI-WORDS Short Form vocabulary checklist as an index of language production. The study focuses on the associations between this short form and directly observed measures of lexical production; the associations between short-form checklists administered at different ages; the predictive associations between short form scores and…
Descriptors: Age, Associative Learning, Child Language, Intellectual Development

Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Study of a one-year-old's earliest use of prepositions found that spatial oppositions ("up-down") were learned first, and used in non-prepositional senses prior to prepositional usage. "With,""by,""to,""for,""at," and "of" were learned later and used to express case relationships and more often misused and omitted than the earlier-learned…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Processes

Hill, Roslyn; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Examines the role of prior intention and knowledge in the comprehension of "forget" by young children. Results reveal that children initially have two interpretations of "forget": an unfilled desire and a state of not knowing. Discusses explanations for the late comprehension of "forget" in terms of representation of knowledge and intention,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education