Rapid word learning in 13- and 17-month-olds in a naturalistic two-word procedure: Looking versus reaching measures

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-217

  Gurteen, Paula M ^a   Horne, Pauline J ^a   Erjavec, Mihela ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infants; Preferential looking; Preferential reaching; Rapid word learning; Two word procedure; Word comprehension; Word production; Word object relation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79952317372     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Akhtar N., Tomasello M. The social nature of words and word learning. Becoming a word learner: A debate on lexical acquisition 2000, 115-135. Oxford University Press, New York. R.M. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, L.B. Smith, A.L. Woodward, N. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, G. Hollich (Eds.).
2. Baldwin D.A. Priorities in children's expectations about object label reference. Form over color. Child Development 1989, 60:1289-1306.
3. Baldwin D.A. Infants' contribution to the achievement of joint reference. Child Development 1991, 62:875-890.
4. Baldwin D.A. Early referential understanding: Infants' ability to recognize referential acts for what they are. Developmental Psychology 1993, 29:832-843.
5. Baldwin D.A., Markman E.M. Establishing word-object relations: A first step. Child Development 1989, 60:381-398.
6. Baldwin D.A., Markman E.M., Bill B., Desjardins R.N., Irwin J.M., Tidball G. Infants' reliance on a social criterion for establishing word-object relations. Child Development 1996, 67:3135-3153.
7. Bates E., Benigni L., Bretherton I., Camaioni L., Volterra V. The emergence of symbols: Cognition and communication in infancy 1979, Academic Press, New York.
8. Bell, M. (1999). The determinants of naming in human infants. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Bangor University, UK.
9. Benedict H. Early lexical development: Comprehension and production. Journal of Child Language 1977, 6:183-200.
10. Bruner J. Child's talk: Learning to use language 1983, W. W. Norton, New York.
11. Butterworth G., Grover L. Joint visual attention, manual pointing, and preverbal communication in human infancy. Attention and performance XIII 1990, 605-624. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. M. Jeannerod (Ed.).
12. Charles-Luce J., Luce P.A. Similarity neighborhoods of words in young children's lexicons. Journal of Child Language 1990, 17:205-215.
13. Cohen J. A power primer. Psychological Bulletin 1992, 112:155-159.
14. Corkum V., Moore C. Development of joint visual attention in infants. Joint attention: Its origins and role in development 1995, 61-83. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. C. Moore, P.J. Dunham (Eds.).
15. Erjavec, M. (2002). Determinants of gestural imitation in young children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Bangor University, UK.
16. Fenson L., Dale P.S., Reznick J.S., Bates E., Thal D.J., Pethick S.J. Variability in early communicative development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1994, 59(5, Serial No. 242).
17. Fenson L., Dale P.S., Reznick J.S., Thal D.J., Bates E., Hartung J.P., et al. MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories: User's guide and technical manual 1993, Singular, San Diego.
18. Fremgen A., Fay D. Overextensions in production and comprehension: A methodological clarification. Journal of Child Language 1980, 7:205-211.
19. Gershkoff-Stowe L., Smith L.B. Shape and the first hundred nouns. Child Development 2004, 75:1098-1114.
20. Golinkoff R.M., Hirsh-Pasek K., Cauley K.M., Gordon L. The eyes have it: Lexical and syntactic comprehension in a new paradigm. Journal of Child Language 1987, 14:23-45.
21. Hamilton A., Plunkett K., Schafer G. Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British Communicative Development Inventory. Journal of Child Language 2000, 27:689-705.
22. Harlow H.F. The formation of learning sets. Psychological Review 1949, 56:51-65.
23. Hollich G., Hirsh-Pasek K., Golinkoff R.M. Introducing the 3-D intermodal preferential looking paradigm: A new method to answer an age-old question. Advances in infancy research 1998, Vol. 12. Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
24. Hollich G., Hirsh-Pasek K., Golinkoff R.M. Breaking the language barrier: An emergentist coalition model for the origins of word learning. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 2000, 65(3, Serial No. 262).
25. Horst J.S., Samuelson L.K. Fast mapping but poor retention by 24-month-old infants. Infancy 2008, 13:128-157.
26. Houston-Price C., Mather E., Sakkalou E. Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behavior in a preferential looking task. Journal of Child Language 2007, 34:701-724.
27. Houston-Price C., Plunkett K., Duffy H. The use of social and salience cues in early word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2006, 95:27-55.
28. Houston-Price C., Plunkett K., Harris P. " Word learning wizardry" at 1;6. Journal of Child Language 2005, 32:175-189.
29. Jones S.S., Smith L.B. How children know the relevant properties for generalizing object names. Developmental Science 2002, 5:219-232.
30. Keen R.E., Berthier N.E. Continuities and discontinuities in infants' representation of objects and events. Advances in Child Development and Behavior 2004, 32:243-279.
31. Landau B., Smith L.B., Jones S.S. The importance of shape in early lexical learning. Cognitive Development 1988, 3:299-321.
32. Markman E.M. Constraints on word learning: Speculations about their nature, origin, and domain specificity. Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology 1992, Vol. 25:59-101. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.
33. Markman E.M., Wachtel G.F. Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meaning of words. Cognitive Psychology 1988, 20:121-157.
34. Mayor J., Plunkett K. A neurocomputational account of taxonomic responding and fast mapping in early word learning. Psychological Review 2010, 117:1-31.
35. Mead G.H. Mind 1934, University of Chicago Press, self, and society. Chicago.
36. Moore C., Angelopoulos M., Bennett P. Word learning in the context of referential and salience cues. Developmental Psychology 1999, 35:60-68.
37. Nelson K. Making sense: The acquisition of shared meaning 1985, Academic Press, Orlando, FL.
38. Oviatt S.L. The emerging ability to comprehend language: An experimental approach. Child Development 1980, 51:97-106.
39. Plunkett K. Theories of early word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 1997, 1:146-153.
40. Quine W.V.O. Word and object 1960, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
41. Reznick J.S. Visual preference as a test of infant word comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics 1990, 11:145-166.
42. Reznick J.S., Goldfield B.A. Change in lexical development in comprehension and production. Developmental Psychology 1992, 28:406-413.
43. Samuelson L.K. Statistical regularities in vocabulary guide language acquisition in connectionist models and 15-20-month-olds. Developmental Psychology 2002, 38:1016-1037.
44. Samuelson L.K., Smith L.B. Early noun vocabularies: Do ontology, category organization, and syntax correspond?. Cognition 1999, 73:1-33.
45. Schafer G., Plunkett K. Rapid word learning by fifteen-month-olds under tightly controlled conditions. Child Development 1998, 69:309-320.
46. Smith L.B. Self-organizing processes in learning to learn words: Development is not induction. Basic and applied perspectives on learning, cognition, and development: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology 1995, Vol. 28:1-32. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.
47. Smith L.B. Learning how to learn words: An associative crane. Becoming a word learner: A debate on lexical acquisition 2000, 51-80. Oxford University Press, New York. R.M. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, L.B. Smith, A.L. Woodward, N. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, G. Hollich (Eds.).
48. Smith L.B., Jones S.S., Landau B. Naming in young children: A dumb attentional mechanism?. Cognition 1996, 60:143-171.
49. Smith L.B., Jones S.S., Landau B., Gershkoff-Stowe L., Samuelson L.K. Object naming provides on the job training for attention. Psychological Science 2002, 13:13-19.
50. Smith L.B., Yu C. Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics. Cognition 2008, 106:1558-1568.
51. Thomas D.G., Campos J.J., Shucard D.W., Ramsay D.S., Shucard J. Semantic comprehension in infancy: A signal detection analysis. Child Development 1981, 52:798-803.
52. Tincoff R., Jusczyk P.W. Some beginnings of word comprehension in 6-month-olds. Psychological Science 1999, 10:172-174.
53. Tomasello M. Joint attention as social cognition. Joint attention: Its origins and role in development 1995, 103-130. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. C. Moore, P.J. Dunham (Eds.).
54. Vygotsky L.S. Thought and language 1962, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
55. Werker J.F., Cohen L.B., Lloyd V.L., Casasola M., Stager C.L. Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology 1998, 34:1289-1309.
56. Woodward A.L. Constraining the problem space in early word learning. Becoming a word learner: A debate on lexical acquisition 2000, 81-114. Oxford University Press, New York. R.M. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, L.B. Smith, A.L. Woodward, N. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, G. Hollich (Eds.).
57. Woodward A.L., Hoyne K.L. Infants' learning about words and sounds in relation to objects. Child Development 1999, 80:65-77.
58. Woodward A.L., Markman E.M. Early word learning. Handbook of child psychology, Vol. 2: Cognition, perception, and language 1998, 371-420. John Wiley, New York. D. Kuhn, R.S. Siegler (Eds.).
59. Woodward A.L., Markman E.M., Fitzsimmons C.M. Rapid word learning in 13- and 18-month-olds. Developmental Psychology 1994, 30:553-566.