| Presentation | 2008-08-08 Effect of sentential contexts on word-action associations in 12- to 18-month-old Japanese infants Tessei KOBAYASHI, Ryoko MUGITANI, Franklin CHANG, Shigeaki AMANO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | To address the issue of early verb learning, this study investigate the effect of sentential contexts on infants' ability to associate words with actions. In a habituation paradigm, 12-, 14- and 18-month-old Japanese infants repeatedly watched computer-animated events in which a fish was engaged in rotating or rocking actions paired with novel words in three contexts: (1) in isolation ("boome" and "seppu"), (2) in a verb frame with a null subject ("[it] is daku/nema-ing"), and (3) in a verb frame with a subject ("boome is daku/nema-ing"). Then, infants alternately watched the same word-action pairs and the switched word-action pairs. Results showed that when the novel words were presented in isolation and in a verb frame with a null subject, the 14- and 18-month-olds, but not 12-month-olds, could associate words with actions. By contrast, when the novel words were presented in a verb frame with a subject, only 18-month-olds, but not 12- and 14-month-olds, could associate words with actions. This suggests that by 14 months, infants might begin to associate words with actions only in simpler sentential contexts. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Early Word Learning / Lexical Development / Sentence / Japanese / Infants |
| Paper # | TL2008-27 |
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| Conference Date | 2008/8/1(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Effect of sentential contexts on word-action associations in 12- to 18-month-old Japanese infants |
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| Keyword(1) | Early Word Learning |
| Keyword(2) | Lexical Development |
| Keyword(3) | Sentence |
| Keyword(4) | Japanese |
| Keyword(5) | Infants |
| 1st Author's Name | Tessei KOBAYASHI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | NTT Communication Science Laboratories() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Ryoko MUGITANI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
| 3rd Author's Name | Franklin CHANG |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
| 4th Author's Name | Shigeaki AMANO |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
| Date | 2008-08-08 |
| Paper # | TL2008-27 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 184 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 4 |
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