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Striano, Tricia; Henning, Anne; Stahl, Daniel – Developmental Science, 2005
Infants' sensitivity to social contingencies was assessed. In Study 1, 1-month-old infants and their mothers interacted face-to-face in three types of imperfect contingent interactions: Normal, Non-Contingent and Imitation. One-month-old infants did not discriminate these conditions. In Study 2, 3-month-old infants were tested as in Study 1. At 3…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Imitation, Mothers
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Casenhiser, Devin; Goldberg, Adele E. – Developmental Science, 2005
This is the first study to investigate experimentally how children come to learn mappings between novel phrasal forms and novel meanings: a central task in learning a language. Two experiments are reported. In both studies 5- to 7-year-old children watched a short set of video clips depicting objects appearing in various ways. Each scene was…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Experiments, Video Technology