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McQuillan, Maureen E.; Smith, Linda B.; Yu, Chen; Bates, John E. – Child Development, 2020
The present research studied children in the second year of life (N = 29, M[subscript age] = 21.14 months, SD = 2.64 months) using experimental manipulations within and between subjects to show that responsive parental influence helps children have more frequent sustained object holds with fewer switches between objects compared to when parents…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Visual Learning, Toddlers, Object Manipulation
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Karmazyn-Raz, Hadar; Smith, Linda B. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Early object name learning is often conceptualized as a problem of mapping heard names to referents. However, infants do not hear object names as discrete events but rather in extended interactions organized around goal-directed actions on objects. The present study examined the statistical structure of the "nonlinguistic" events that…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse