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Semantic priming supports infants’ ability to learn names of unseen objects
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In: PLoS One (2021)
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Human language permits us to call to mind objects, events, and ideas that we cannot witness directly. This capacity rests upon abstract verbal reference: the appreciation that words are linked to mental representations that can be established, retrieved and modified, even when the entities to which a word refers is perceptually unavailable. Although establishing verbal reference is a pivotal achievement, questions concerning its developmental origins remain. To address this gap, we investigate infants’ ability to establish a representation of an object, hidden from view, from language input alone. In two experiments, 15-month-olds (N = 72) and 12-month-olds (N = 72) watch as an actor names three familiar, visible objects; she then provides a novel name for a fourth, hidden fully from infants’ view. In the Semantic Priming condition, the visible familiar objects all belong to the same semantic neighborhood (e.g., apple, banana, orange). In the No Priming condition, the objects are drawn from different semantic neighborhoods (e.g., apple, shoe, car). At test infants view two objects. If infants can use the naming information alone to identify the likely referent, then infants in the Semantic Priming, but not in the No Priming condition, will successfully infer the referent of the fourth (hidden) object. Brief summary of results here. Implications for the development of abstract verbal reference will be discussed.
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Registered Report Protocol
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790528/ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244968 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33412565
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Birdsong fails to support object categorization in human infants
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In: PLoS One (2021)
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Infants’ advances in speech perception shape their earliest links between language and cognition
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Studying the Real-Time Interpretation of Novel Noun and Verb Meanings in Young Children
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Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Infants constrain nominal reference online using known verbs, but not known adjectives
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In: Cognition (2019)
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When veps cry: Two-year-olds efficiently learn novel words from linguistic contexts alone
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Naming influences 9-month-olds’ identification of discrete categories along a perceptual continuum
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What the [beep]? Six-month-olds Link Novel Communicative Signals to Meaning
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Let's See a Boy and a Balloon: Argument Labels and Syntactic Frame in Verb Learning
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Slowly but surely: Adverbs support verb learning in 2-year-olds ...
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Doing More with Less: Verb Learning in Korean-Acquiring 24-Month-Olds
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