Infant word learning has become a popular field of study over the past decade. Research during this time has shown that infants can learn, in a short period of time, to attach words to objects. Two experiments on the role of social cues in early word learning are reported using tightly controlled conditions. Fourteen- and 18-month-old infants were trained by viewing a video of an adult pointing and nodding towards one of two different novel objects appearing on a screen simultaneously, while novel labels were emitted through a speaker. Infants’ looking times to each object were recorded both during training and test trials. Our analyses indicated that both 14-and 18-month-olds looked significantly longer at the object that the adult pointed...
This series of studies investigated the ability of 14-month-old infants to differentiate similar-so...
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appe...
Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a matter of d...
Infant word learning has become a popular field of study over the past decade. Research during this ...
This article explores young infants' ability to learn new words in situations providing tightly cont...
This article explores young infants' ability to learn new words in situations providing tightly cont...
Infants' characteristics, including temperament and cognitive ability, contribute to individual diff...
Children learn their earliest words through social interaction, but it is unknown how much they rely...
A core task in language acquisition is mapping words onto objects, actions, and events. Two studies ...
In this series of experiments, we tested the limits of young infants’ word learning and generalizati...
Children learn their earliest words through social interaction, but it is unknown how much they use ...
This paper reports three experiments on infants’ sign learning. In order for an infant to learn a sp...
How do infants initially determine whether a novel object word labels a specific individual (e.g. Ma...
Children initially learn the meanings of words by attending to the events and entities that accompan...
A central component of language development is word learning. One characterization of this process i...
This series of studies investigated the ability of 14-month-old infants to differentiate similar-so...
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appe...
Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a matter of d...
Infant word learning has become a popular field of study over the past decade. Research during this ...
This article explores young infants' ability to learn new words in situations providing tightly cont...
This article explores young infants' ability to learn new words in situations providing tightly cont...
Infants' characteristics, including temperament and cognitive ability, contribute to individual diff...
Children learn their earliest words through social interaction, but it is unknown how much they rely...
A core task in language acquisition is mapping words onto objects, actions, and events. Two studies ...
In this series of experiments, we tested the limits of young infants’ word learning and generalizati...
Children learn their earliest words through social interaction, but it is unknown how much they use ...
This paper reports three experiments on infants’ sign learning. In order for an infant to learn a sp...
How do infants initially determine whether a novel object word labels a specific individual (e.g. Ma...
Children initially learn the meanings of words by attending to the events and entities that accompan...
A central component of language development is word learning. One characterization of this process i...
This series of studies investigated the ability of 14-month-old infants to differentiate similar-so...
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appe...
Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a matter of d...