A Cross-Linguistic Study of Word-Mapping in 18- to 20-Month-Old Infants

Autor/inn/en	Katerelos, Marina; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko
Titel	A Cross-Linguistic Study of Word-Mapping in 18- to 20-Month-Old Infants
Quelle	In: Infancy, 16 (2011) 5, S.508-534 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00064.x
Schlagwörter	Infants; English; French; Japanese; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Habituation; Nouns; Verbs; Language Processing; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; English language; Englisch; Französisch; Japaner; Japanisch; Sprachverarbeitung; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	This study was designed to examine whether infants acquiring languages that place a differential emphasis on nouns and verbs, focus their attention on motions or objects in the presence of a novel word. An infant-controlled habituation paradigm was used to teach 18- to 20-month-old English-, French-, and Japanese-speaking infants' novel words for events. Infants were habituated to two word-event pairings and then presented with new combinations that involved a familiar word with a new object or motion, or both. Children could map the novel word to both the object and the motion, despite the differential salience of object and motion words in their native language. A control experiment with no label confirmed that both object and motion changes were detectable. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table, and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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