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Nomikou, Iris; Rohlfing, Katharina J.; Cimiano, Philipp; Mandler, Jean M. – Language Learning and Development, 2019
Applying an eye-tracking technique, we tested early verb understanding in 48 infants aged 9 and 10 months. Infants saw two objects presented side by side and heard a verb that referred to a common action with one of these objects (e.g., eating relating to a banana). The verbs were spoken by the parent in an interrogative manner in order to elicit…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Verbs, Infants, Infant Behavior
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Hohle, Barbara; Weissenborn, Jurgen; Kiefer, Dorothea; Schulz, Antje; Schmitz, Michaela – Infancy, 2004
How do children determine the syntactic category of novel words? In this article we present the results of 2 experiments that investigated whether German children between 12 and 16 months of age can use distributional knowledge that determiners precede nouns and subject pronouns precede verbs to syntactically categorize adjacent novel words.…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns