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ERIC Number: EJ605477
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Infants' Association of Linguistic Labels with Causal Actions.
Casasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B.
Developmental Psychology, v36 n2 p155-68 Mar 2000
Six experiments examined infants' ability to associate nonsense words with two causal actions: pushing and pulling. Eighteen-month-olds, but not 14-month-olds, formed word-action associations. Fourteen-month-olds discriminated a change in label but not a change in action when the other was held constant. When language labels were replaced with music, 14-month-olds responded in terms of and discriminated between pushing and pulling. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition, Recognition (Psychology), Verbs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Interference (Learning); Word Learning