Infants' Association of Linguistic Labels with Causal Actions.

Casasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B.

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ERIC Number: EJ605477

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Publication Date: 2000

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Infants' Association of Linguistic Labels with Causal Actions.

Casasola, Marianella; Cohen, Leslie B.

Developmental Psychology, v36 n2 p155-68 Mar 2000

Six experiments examined infants' ability to associate nonsense words with two causal actions: pushing and pulling. Eighteen-month-olds, but not 14-month-olds, formed word-action associations. Fourteen-month-olds discriminated a change in label but not a change in action when the other was held constant. When language labels were replaced with music, 14-month-olds responded in terms of and discriminated between pushing and pulling. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Comprehension, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition, Recognition (Psychology), Verbs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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