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The Birth of Words: Ten-Month-Olds Learn Words Through Perceptual Salience
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A core task in language acquisition is mapping words onto objects, actions, and events. Two studies investigated how children learn to map novel labels onto novel objects. Study 1 investigated whether 10-month-olds use both perceptual and social cues to learn a word. Study 2, a control study, tested whether infants paired the label with a particular spatial location rather than to an object. Results show that 10-month-olds can learn new labels and do so by relying on the perceptual salience of an object instead of social cues provided by a speaker. This is in direct contrast to the way in which older children (12-, 18-, and 24-month-olds) learn and extend new object names.
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- Authors
- Pruden, S. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hennon, E. A.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006-03-01
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 266-280
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2098701576
- Cited by
- 256
- References
- 66
- FWCI
- 21.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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