Showing papers by "Heidelberg University (Ohio) published in 1999"
TL;DR: The effects of differing levels of word knowledge on infants' sequential touching behaviors were investigated in two studies as discussed by the authors, and it was found that even infants, like adults, can make distinctions among objects on the basis of their knowledge about the objects labels.
Abstract: The effects of differing levels of word knowledge on infants’ sequential touching behaviors were investigated in two studies. In both, parent report was used to assess three levels of word knowledge: known, frontier, and unknown. In the first study, 14-month-old infants sequentially touched objects consistent with parents’ reports of their word knowledge. In the second study, 20-month-old infants sequentially touched objects by both conceptual category and reported level of word knowledge. It appears that even infants, like adults, can make distinctions among objects on the basis of their knowledge about the objects’ labels.
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