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ERIC Number: EJ957708
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Nov
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1525-0008
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14-Month-Old Infants Form Novel Word-Spatial Relation Associations
Casasola, Marianella; Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore
Infancy, v6 n3 p385-396 Nov 2004
This study explored 14-month-old infants' ability to form novel word-spatial relation associations. During habituation, infants heard 1 novel word (e.g., "teek") while viewing dynamic containment events (i.e., Big Bird placed in a box) and, on other habituation trials, a second novel word (e.g., "blick") while viewing dynamic support events (i.e., Big Bird placed on the box). Each novel word was presented in a sentence (e.g., "She's putting Big Bird teek the box"). During the test, infants discriminated an event that maintained the habituation word-relation pairing from one that presented a switch in this pairing. The results indicate that 14-month-olds can learn to form word-relation associations quickly, requiring only a few minutes of experience with each word-relation pairing. (Contains 2 figures and 1 footnote.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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