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Move It! Visual Feedback Enhances Validity of Preferential Looking as a Measure of Individual Differences in Vocabulary in Toddlers
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Killing, Sarah E. A.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Developmental Science, 2008
Forty toddlers aged 20 to 24 months were presented with 32 pairs of images with the auditory stimulus Look followed by the name of the target image (e.g. "Look...tree") in an intermodal preferential looking (IPL) paradigm. The same series of 16 items was presented first with one image as target and then with the other member of the pair as target.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Toddlers, Visual Stimuli, Individual Differences
Taking Stock as Theories of Word Learning Take Shape
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Booth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Developmental Science, 2008
In this paper we consider the perceptual and conceptual contributions that shape early word learning, using research on the "shape bias" as a case in point. In our view, conceptual, linguistic, social-pragmatic, and perceptual sources of information influence one another powerfully and continuously in the service of word learning throughout…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Concept Formation, Learning Theories, Bias