Quantitative Linguistic Predictors of Infants' Learning of Specific English Words
| Autor: | Colman Humphrey, Daniel Swingley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Mothers Concreteness Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Article Education Phonetics Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Learning Speech 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child media_common Language 05 social sciences Infant Linguistics Verbal Learning Vocabulary development Language development Word lists by frequency Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Speech Perception Female Psychology Comprehension Utterance Child Language 050104 developmental & child psychology Spoken language |
| Zdroj: | Child development. 89(4) |
| ISSN: | 1467-8624 |
| Popis: | To evaluate which features of spoken language aid infant word learning, a corpus of infant-directed speech (M. R. Brent & J. M. Siskind, 2001) was characterized on several linguistic dimensions and statistically related to the infants’ vocabulary outcomes word by word. Comprehension (at 12 and 15 months) and production (15 months) were predicted by frequency, frequency of occurrence in one-word utterances, concreteness, utterance length, and typical duration. These features have been proposed to influence learning before, but here their relative contributions were measured. Mothers’ data predicted learning in their own children better than in other children; thus, vocabulary is measurably aligned within families. These analyses provide a quantitative basis for claims concerning the relevance of several properties of maternal English speech in facilitating early word learning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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