Jane B Childers
Jane B Childers
An important question in verb learning is how children extend new verbs to new situational contexts. In Study 1, 2 1/2-year-old children were shown a complex event followed by new events that preserved only the action from the initial event...
Katherine J Alcock,Kenneth Rimba,Charles Rjc Newton
Katherine J Alcock
The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired until age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before. Use of passive...
If it's red, it's not Vap: how competition among words may benefit early word learning [0.03%]
如果它是红色的，它就不是Vap——单词之间的竞争如何有利于早期词汇学习
Hanako Yoshida,Rima Hanania
Hanako Yoshida
One of the most prominent issues in early cognitive and linguistic development concerns how children figure out meanings of words from hearing them in context, since in many contexts there are multiple words and multiple potential referents...
Young children's yes bias: How does it relate to verbal ability, inhibitory control, and theory of mind? [0.03%]
幼儿的同意偏差：与语言能力、抑制控制和心理理论有什么关系？
Yusuke Moriguchi,Mako Okanda,Shoji Itakura
Yusuke Moriguchi
The aim of the present study was to investigate how young children reduce a yes bias, the tendency to answer 'yes' to yes-no questions. Specifically, we examined three possible factors: verbal ability, inhibitory control and theory of mind....
Can English-learning toddlers acquire and generalize a novel spatial word? [0.03%]
学龄前儿童能否学会并运用一个新颖的空间词汇？
Marianella Casasola,Makeba Parramore Wilbourn,Sujin Yang
Marianella Casasola
English-learning toddlers of 21 and 22 months were taught a novel spatial word for four actions resulting in a tight-fit spatial relation, a relation that is lexically marked in Korean but not English (Choi & Bowerman, 1991). Toddlers in a ...
Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development [0.03%]
动手学单词：手势在预测词汇发展中的作用
Meredith L Rowe,Seyda Ozçalişkan,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Meredith L Rowe
Children vary widely in how quickly their vocabularies grow. Can looking at early gesture use in children and parents help us predict this variability? We videotaped 53 English-speaking parent-child dyads in their homes during their daily a...
Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children [0.03%]
手势丰富的世界中的语言学习：意大利儿童与美国儿童早期交流的比较研究
Jana M Iverson,Olga Capirci,Virginia Volterra et al.
Jana M Iverson et al.
Italian children are immersed in a gesture-rich culture. Given the large gesture repertoire of Italian adults, young Italian children might be expected to develop a larger inventory of gestures than American children. If so, do these gestur...