Elika Bergelson,Daniel Swingley
Elika Bergelson
A handful of recent experimental reports have shown that infants of 6 to 9 months know the meanings of some common words. Here, we replicate and extend these findings. With a new set of items, we show that when young infants (age 6-16 month...
Franzo Law nd,Jan R Edwards
Franzo Law nd
This study was designed to investigate the relationship between vocabulary size and the speed and accuracy of lexical processing in preschoolers between the ages of 30-46 months using an automatic eye tracking task based on the looking-whil...
Learning verb syntax via listening: New evidence from 22-month-olds [0.03%]
聆听学习动词句法结构的新证据：来自22个月龄儿童的证据
Katherine Messenger,Sylvia Yuan,Cynthia Fisher
Katherine Messenger
Children recruit verb syntax to guide verb interpretation. We asked whether 22-month-olds spontaneously encode information about a particular novel verb's syntactic properties through listening to sentences, retain this information in long-...
Joanna C Lee,J Bruce Tomblin
Joanna C Lee
The aim of the current study was to examine different aspects of procedural memory in young adults who varied with regard to their language abilities. We selected a sample of procedural memory tasks, each of which represented a unique type ...
Shohei Hidaka,Linda B Smith
Shohei Hidaka
Carey and Bartlett introduced a new method for studying lexical development, one of presenting the child with a word and a single context of use and asking what was learned from that one encounter. They also reported a then new finding: By ...
Twelve-Month-Old Infants' Encoding of Goal and Source Paths in Agentive and Non-Agentive Motion Events [0.03%]
12月龄婴儿在代理性和非代理性事件中对目标路径和来源路径的编码
Laura Lakusta,Susan Carey
Laura Lakusta
Across languages and event types (agentive and non-agentive motion, transfer, change of state, attach/detach), goal paths are privileged over source paths in the linguistic encoding of events. Furthermore, some linguistic analyses suggest t...
Effects of Parental Interaction on Infant Vocalization Rate, Variability and Vocal Type [0.03%]
父母互动对婴儿发声率、变化性和发声类型的影响
Beau Franklin,Anne S Warlaumont,Daniel Messinger et al.
Beau Franklin et al.
Examination of infant vocalization patterns across interactive and noninteractive contexts may facilitate better understanding of early communication development. In the current study, with 24 infant-parent dyads, infant volubility increase...
Yi Ting Huang,Elizabeth Spelke,Jesse Snedeker
Yi Ting Huang
Number words are generally used to refer to the exact cardinal value of a set, but cognitive scientists disagree about their meanings. Although most psychological analyses presuppose that numbers have exact semantics (two means EXACTLY TWO)...
Slowly but Surely: Adverbs Support Verb Learning in 2-Year-Olds [0.03%]
慢慢地但 surely地：副词支持 2 岁幼儿动词的学习
Kristen Syrett,Sudha Arunachalam,Sandra R Waxman
Kristen Syrett
To acquire the meanings of verbs, toddlers make use of the surrounding linguistic information. For example, two-year-olds successfully acquire novel transitive verbs that appear in semantically rich frames containing content nouns ("The boy...
Mark S Seidenberg
Mark S Seidenberg
Research in cognitive science and neuroscience has made enormous progress toward understanding skilled reading, the acquisition of reading skill, the brain bases of reading, the causes of developmental reading impairments and how such impai...