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Dittmar, Miriam; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2014
Many studies show a developmental advantage for transitive sentences with familiar verbs over those with novel verbs. It might be that once familiar verbs become entrenched in particular constructions, they would be more difficult to understand (than would novel verbs) in non-prototypical constructions. We provide support for this hypothesis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Familiarity, Verbs, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Moll, Henrike; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Infancy, 2011
Previous research has found that young children recognize an adult as being acquainted with an object most readily when the child and adult have previously engaged socially with that object together. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that such social engagement is so powerful that it can sometimes lead children to overestimate what…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Social Behavior, Recognition (Psychology), Adults
Chan, Angel; Meints, Kerstin; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2010
Act-out and intermodal preferential looking (IPL) tasks were administered to 67 English children aged 2-0, 2-9 and 3-5 to assess their comprehension of canonical SVO transitive word order with both familiar and novel verbs. Children at 3-5 and at 2-9 showed evidence of comprehending word order in both verb conditions and both tasks, although…
Descriptors: Verbs, Familiarity, Word Order, Child Language
Liebal, Kristin; Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2009
We investigated whether 1-year-old infants use their shared experience with an adult to determine the meaning of a pointing gesture. In the first study, after two adults had each shared a different activity with the infant, one of the adults pointed to a target object. Eighteen- but not 14-month-olds responded appropriately to the pointing gesture…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Language Acquisition, Adults

Carpenter, Malinda; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael – Child Development, 2002
This study investigated 2-year-olds' understanding of others' intentions in a social learning context. After seeing a demonstration of how to open a box, children in two "No Prior Intention" conditions were less likely than those in "Prior Intention" conditions to open the box themselves when the adult unsuccessfully tried to open it. Results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Familiarity, Imitation
Moll, Henrike; Koring, Cornelia; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
In the studies presented here, infants' understanding of others' attention was assessed when gaze direction cues were not diagnostic. Fourteen-, 18- and 24-month-olds witnessed an adult look to the side of an object and express excitement. In 1 experimental condition this object was new for the adult because she was not present while the child and…
Descriptors: Infants, Comprehension, Attention, Adults

Brooks, Patricia J.; Tomasello, Michael; Dodson, Kelly; Lewis, Lawrence B. – Child Development, 1999
Examined children's tendency to make argument structure overgeneralization errors. Found that 3- to 8-year-olds were more likely to overgeneralize verbs less familiar to them, supporting the hypothesis that verb usage in particular construction types becomes entrenched over time. As children learn transitivity status of particular verbs, they…
Descriptors: Child Language, Familiarity, Generalization, Language Acquisition
Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2004
Childers and Tomasello (2001) found that training 2 1/2-year-olds on the English transitive construction greatly improves their performance on a post-test in which they must use novel verbs in that construction. In the current study, we replicated Childers and Tomasello's finding, but using a much lower frequency of transitive verbs and models in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Familiarity, Syntax