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Paquette-Smith, Melissa; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Language Learning and Development, 2016
By their second birthday, children have begun using grammatical cues to decipher the meaning of newly encountered words. By 3 years of age, there is evidence that children are more reliant on grammatical than social cues to decipher verb meaning (Nappa, Wessel, McEldoon, Gleitman, & Trueswell, 2009). Here, we investigate children's reliance on…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Grammar, Cues, Nonverbal Communication
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Galle, Marcus E.; Apfelbaum, Keith S.; McMurray, Bob – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Recent work has demonstrated that the addition of multiple talkers during habituation improves 14-month-olds' performance in the switch task (Rost & McMurray, 2009). While the authors suggest that this boost in performance is due to the increase in acoustic variability (Rost & McMurray, 2010), it is also possible that there is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Infants, Acoustics, Auditory Stimuli