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MacKenzie, Heather; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2012
This study examined whether 12-month-olds will accept words that differ phonologically and phonetically from their native language as object labels in an associative learning task. Sixty infants were presented with sets of English word-object (N = 30), Japanese word-object (N = 15), or Czech word-object (N = 15) pairings until they habituated.…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Associative Learning, Slavic Languages, Infants
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Berman, Jared M. J.; Chambers, Craig G.; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
An eye tracking methodology was used to evaluate 3- and 4-year-old children's sensitivity to speaker affect when resolving referential ambiguity. Children were presented with pictures of three objects on a screen (including two referents of the same kind, e.g., an intact doll and a broken doll, and one distracter item), paired with a prerecorded…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Human Body