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Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous research suggests that English monolingual children and adults can use speech disfluencies (e.g., "uh") to predict that a speaker will name a novel object. To understand the origins of this ability, we tested 48 32-month-old children (monolingual English, monolingual French, bilingual English-French; Study 1) and 16 adults…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, Monolingualism, English
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Tenenbaum, Elena J.; Sobel, David M.; Sheinkpof, Stephen J.; Malle, Bertram F.; Morgan, James L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
We investigated longitudinal relations among gaze following and face scanning in infancy and later language development. At 12 months, infants watched videos of a woman describing an object while their passive viewing was measured with an eye-tracker. We examined the relation between infants' face scanning behavior and their tendency to follow the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Attention