Infants' Learning about Words and Sounds in Relation to Objects.

Woodward, Amanda L.; Hoyne, Karen L.

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Publication Date: 1999

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Infants' Learning about Words and Sounds in Relation to Objects.

Woodward, Amanda L.; Hoyne, Karen L.

Child Development, v70 n1 p65-77 Jan-Feb 1999

Two studies examined whether 1-year olds' name learning during joint attention was guided by expectation that names will be in the form of spoken words. Results showed that 13-month olds, but not 20-month olds, learned a new sound/object correspondence, as evidenced by their choosing targets reliably in responses to hearing the word or sound on test trials, but not control trials. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Expectation, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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