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Katherine Trice; Dionysia Saratsli; Anna Papafragou; Zhenghan Qi – Developmental Science, 2025
Children can acquire novel word meanings by using pragmatic cues. However, previous literature has frequently focused on in-the-moment word-to-meaning mappings, not delayed retention of novel vocabulary. Here, we examine how children use pragmatics as they learn and retain novel words. Thirty-three younger children (mean age: 5.0, range: 4.0-6.0,…
Descriptors: Children, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Ming Yean Sia; Emily Mather; Matthew W. Crocker; Nivedita Mani – Developmental Science, 2024
Previous studies showed that word learning is affected by children's existing knowledge. For instance, knowledge of semantic category aids word learning, whereas a dense phonological neighbourhood impedes learning of similar-sounding words. Here, we examined to what extent children associate similar-sounding words (e.g., rat and cat) with objects…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition, Prior Learning
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Seyda Özçaliskan; Ché Lucero; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Developmental Science, 2024
Blind adults display language-specificity in their packaging and ordering of events in speech. These differences affect the representation of events in "co-speech gesture"--gesturing with speech--but not in "silent gesture"--gesturing without speech. Here we examine when in development blind children begin to show adult-like…
Descriptors: Blindness, Vision, Nonverbal Communication, Children
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Erin Campbell; Robyn Casillas; Elika Bergelson – Developmental Science, 2024
What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N = 40, Mean age = 24 months [R: 7-57 months]) and compared the size and contents of their productive vocabulary to those of a large normative sample of sighted children (N =…
Descriptors: Vision, Language Acquisition, Parent Attitudes, Vocabulary Development
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Hsin-Hui Lu; Hong-Hsiang Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao – Developmental Science, 2024
This study examined how Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with and without a history of late talking (LT) process familiar monosyllabic words with unexpected lexical tones, focusing on both phonological and semantic violations. This study initially enrolled 64 Mandarin-speaking toddlers: 31 with a history of LT (mean age: 27.67 months) and 33 without…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Delayed Speech, Mandarin Chinese, Cognitive Processes
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Anna Vannucci; Andrea Fields; Paul A. Bloom; Nicolas L. Camacho; Tricia Choy; Amaesha Durazi; Syntia Hadis; Chelsea Harmon; Charlotte Heleniak; Michelle VanTieghem; Mary Dozier; Michael P. Milham; Simona Ghetti; Nim Tottenham – Developmental Science, 2024
Cognitive science has demonstrated that we construct knowledge about the world by abstracting patterns from routinely encountered experiences and storing them as semantic memories. This preregistered study tested the hypothesis that caregiving-related early adversities (crEAs) shape affective semantic memories to reflect the content of those…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Semantics