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Krehm, Madelaine; Onishi, Kristine H.; Vouloumanos, Athena – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Do young infants understand that pointing gestures allow the pointer to change the information state of a recipient? We used a third-party experimental scenario to examine whether 9- and 11-month-olds understand that a pointer's pointing gesture can inform a recipient about a target object. When the pointer pointed to a target, infants…
Descriptors: Infants, Nonverbal Communication, Cognitive Ability, Infant Behavior
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Gatt, Daniela – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This study explored individual variability in the bilingual vocabularies of 65 Maltese children aged 23-27 months (N = 33) and 30-34 months (N = 32). Most of the participants' direct input consisted of Maltese sentences embedding English words. Bilingualism was present at the societal level. Word production was measured through parental report,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afro Asiatic Languages, Vocabulary, Language Skills