Infants’ Use of Lexical-Category-to-Meaning Links in Object Individuation.
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| Title: | Infants’ Use of Lexical-Category-to-Meaning Links in Object Individuation. |
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| Authors: | Hall, D. Geoffrey (AUTHOR), Corrigall, Kathleen (AUTHOR), Rhemtulla, Mijke (AUTHOR), Donegan, Eleanor (AUTHOR), Xu, Fei (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Child Development. Sep/Oct2008, Vol. 79 Issue 5, p1432-1443. 12p. 5 Graphs. |
| Subjects: | Infant development, Separation-individuation, Meaning (Psychology), Lexical access, Age factors in language acquisition, Cognition in infants |
| Abstract: | Infants watched an experimenter retrieve a stuffed animal from an opaque box and then return it. This happened twice, consistent with either 1 animal appearing on 2 occasions or 2 identical-looking animals each appearing once. The experimenter labeled each object appearance with a different novel label. After infants retrieved 1 object from the box, their subsequent search behavior was recorded. Twenty-month-olds, but not 16-month-olds, searched significantly longer for a second object inside the box when the labels were both proper names than when they were 1 count noun followed by 1 proper name. The effect was not significant when proper names were replaced by adjectives. Twenty-month-olds’ understanding of meaning distinctions among several word categories guided their object individuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | Infants watched an experimenter retrieve a stuffed animal from an opaque box and then return it. This happened twice, consistent with either 1 animal appearing on 2 occasions or 2 identical-looking animals each appearing once. The experimenter labeled each object appearance with a different novel label. After infants retrieved 1 object from the box, their subsequent search behavior was recorded. Twenty-month-olds, but not 16-month-olds, searched significantly longer for a second object inside the box when the labels were both proper names than when they were 1 count noun followed by 1 proper name. The effect was not significant when proper names were replaced by adjectives. Twenty-month-olds’ understanding of meaning distinctions among several word categories guided their object individuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 00093920 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01197.x |
