Reenactment of televised content by 2-year olds: Toddlers use language learned from television to solve a difficult imitation problem

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 696-703

  Barr, Rachel ^a   Wyss, Nancy ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imitation; Repetition; Television; Toddler; Verbal labels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION VIEWING; TODDLER; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TELEVISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54949111287     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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