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Infants' Early Verbal Imitation and Their Later Lexical Development.
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Masur, Elise Frank – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined the relationship between infants' early verbal imitation, when the ability to copy behaviors first emerges, and their lexical development during the second year of life. Twenty infants were examined longitudinally at ages 10, 13, 17, and 21 months. Suggests that infants' early imitation of words not in their repertoires predicts and may…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Imitation
Transitions in Representational Ability: Infants' Verbal, Vocal, and Action Imitation during the Second Year.
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Masur, Elise Frank – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Investigated developmental change in symbolic representational ability by examining infants' imitation of vocalizations, words, visible motor actions, and nonvisible motor behaviors at ages 10, 13, 17, and 21 months. Results revealed a pattern of increasing imitation, supporting the view that a domain-independent representational capacity develops…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Imitation