From babble to words: Infants’ early productions match words and objects in their environment
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101308
Abstract: Infants' early babbling allows them to engage in proto-conversations with caretakers, well before clearly articulated, meaningful words are part of their productive lexicon. Moreover, the well-rehearsed sounds from babble serve as a perceptual 'filter', drawing… read more here.
Keywords: objects environment; productions match; match words; infants early ... See more keywords
Consistency of co-occurring actions influences young children’s word learning
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190097
Abstract: Communication with young children is often multimodal in nature, involving, for example, language and actions. The simultaneous presentation of information from both domains may boost language learning by highlighting the connection between an object and… read more here.
Keywords: word; word learning; young children; consistency ... See more keywords
Not all is forgotten: Children's associative matrices for features of a word learning episode.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13291
Abstract: Word learning studies traditionally examine the narrow link between words and objects, indifferent to the rich contextual information surrounding objects. This research examined whether children attend to this contextual information and construct an associative matrix… read more here.
Keywords: learning episode; associative matrices; word learning; words objects ... See more keywords