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A Cross-Linguistic Study of Word-Mapping in 18- to 20-Month-Old Infants
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Katerelos, Marina; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko – Infancy, 2011
This study was designed to examine whether infants acquiring languages that place a differential emphasis on nouns and verbs, focus their attention on motions or objects in the presence of a novel word. An infant-controlled habituation paradigm was used to teach 18- to 20-month-old English-, French-, and Japanese-speaking infants' novel words for…
Descriptors: Infants, English, French, Japanese
Better Processing of Consonantal over Vocalic Information in Word Learning at 16 Months of Age
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Havy, Melanie; Nazzi, Thierry – Infancy, 2009
Previous research using the name-based categorization task has shown that 20-month-old infants can simultaneously learn 2 words that only differ by 1 consonantal feature but fail to do so when the words only differ by 1 vocalic feature. This asymmetry was taken as evidence for the proposal that consonants are more important than vowels at the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Phonemes, Foreign Countries