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Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Linn, Emily; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Language Learning, 2022
Infants build knowledge by acting on the world. We conducted an ecologically grounded test of an embodied learning hypothesis: that infants' active engagement with objects in the home environment elicits caregiver naming and cascades to learning object names. Our home-based study extends laboratory-based theories to identify real-world processes…
Descriptors: Infants, Video Technology, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
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Nicoladis, Elena – Language Learning, 2005
This study explores the acquisition of complex words composed of both verbs and nouns through novel forms produced spontaneously by a French-English bilingual child. Diary recordings were kept by the child's mother from ages 2:8 to 5:0. The results showed little support for a proposed developmental sequence based on cross-sectional data e.g.,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Cues, Nouns, Bilingualism