Alyssa J Kersey,Jessica F Cantlon
Alyssa J Kersey
Counting is an evolutionarily recent cultural invention of the human species. In order for humans to have conceived of counting in the first place, certain representational and logical abilities must have already been in place. The focus of...
Processing and Comprehension of Accented Speech by Monolingual and Bilingual Children [0.03%]
单语和双语儿童处理和理解带口音的言语的能力
Margarethe McDonald,Megan Gross,Milijana Buac et al.
Margarethe McDonald et al.
This study tested the effect of Spanish-accented speech on sentence comprehension in children with different degrees of Spanish experience. The hypothesis was that earlier acquisition of Spanish would be associated with enhanced comprehensi...
2.5-year-olds' retention and generalization of novel words across short and long delays [0.03%]
幼儿对新词的短期和长期保持和泛化能力
Erica H Wojcik
Erica H Wojcik
Two experiments investigated two-year-olds' retention and generalization of novel words across short and long time delays. Specifically, retention of newly learned words and generalization to novel exemplars or novel contexts were tested on...
When veps cry: Two-year-olds efficiently learn novel words from linguistic contexts alone [0.03%]
言语环境下的词义诱导学习：幼年时期的优势效应
Brock Ferguson,Eileen Graf,Sandra R Waxman
Brock Ferguson
We assessed 24-month-old infants' lexical processing efficiency for both novel and familiar words. Prior work documented that 19-month-olds successfully identify referents of familiar words (e.g., The dog is so little) as well as novel word...
The effect of Zipfian frequency variations on category formation in adult artificial language learning [0.03%]
齐夫频率变化对成人人工语言学习中范畴形成的影响
Kathryn D Schuler,Patricia A Reeder,Elissa L Newport et al.
Kathryn D Schuler et al.
Successful language acquisition hinges on organizing individual words into grammatical categories and learning the relationships between them, but the method by which children accomplish this task has been debated in the literature. One pro...
Noun and Verb Production in Maternal and Child Language: Continuity, Stability, and Prediction across the Second Year of Life [0.03%]
母语和儿童语言中的名词和动词的产生：生命第二年内的连续性、稳定性及预测性
Emiddia Longobardi,Pietro Spataro,Diane L Putnick et al.
Emiddia Longobardi et al.
The present study examined continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability of noun and verb production measures in 30 child-mother dyads observed at 16 and 20 months, and predictive relations with the acquisition of nouns and verbs at 24...
Elika Bergelson,Richard Aslin
Elika Bergelson
The present study investigated infants' knowledge about familiar nouns. Infants (n = 46, 12-20-month-olds) saw two-image displays of familiar objects, or one familiar and one novel object. Infants heard either a matching word (e.g. "foot' w...
Weiyi Ma,Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,Derek Houston et al.
Weiyi Ma et al.
Infant-directed speech (IDS), compared with adult-directed speech (ADS), is characterized by a slower rate, a higher fundamental frequency, greater pitch variations, longer pauses, repetitive intonational structures, and shorter sentences. ...
Lilia Rissman,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Lilia Rissman
Across a diverse range of languages, children proceed through similar stages in their production of causal language: their initial verbs lack internal causal structure, followed by a period during which they produce causative overgeneraliza...
Erin Conwell
Erin Conwell
Many approaches to early word learning posit that children assume a one-to-one mapping of form and meaning. However, children's early vocabularies contain homophones, words that violate that assumption. Children might learn such words by ex...