The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study
| Autor: | Casey Lew-Williams, Ulf Liszkowski, Liquan Liu, Claire Noble, Connor Waddell, Rachel Barr, Mikołaj Hernik, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Leher Singh, Daan R. van Renswoude, Stephanie Wermelinger, Ingmar Visser, Anna Brown, Christine E. Potter, Alexandra Laoun-Rubenstein, Jessica F. Hay, Rachel K.Y. Tsui, Ágnes Melinda Kovács, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Marc Colomer, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, S. Durrant, Marianna Jartó, Melanie Soderstrom, Alexis K. Black, Anja Gampe |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Psychology Other Research (FMG), Ontwikkelingspsychologie (Psychologie, FMG) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Eye Movements genetic structures Multilingualism Fixation Ocular Language Development Article 050105 experimental psychology Language learner Child Development Consistency (negotiation) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Eye-Tracking Technology Cued speech 4. Education 05 social sciences Infant Gaze Test (assessment) Variation (linguistics) Psychologie Social Perception Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Visual Perception Eye tracking Female Heuristics Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Infancy Infancy, 26(1), 4-38. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 1532-7078 |
| Popis: | Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non-verbal cues, for example, by following the direction of their eye gaze. Sensitivity to cues such as eye gaze might be particularly important for bilingual infants, as they encounter less consistency between words and objects than monolingual infants, and do not always have access to the same word-learning heuristics (e.g., mutual exclusivity). In a preregistered study, we tested the hypothesis that bilingual experience would lead to a more pronounced ability to follow another's gaze. We used a gaze-following paradigm developed by Senju and Csibra (Current Biology, 18, 2008, 668) to test a total of 93 6- to 9-month-old and 229 12- to 15-month-old monolingual and bilingual infants, in 11 laboratories located in 8 countries. Monolingual and bilingual infants showed similar gaze-following abilities, and both groups showed age-related improvements in speed, accuracy, frequency, and duration of fixations to congruent objects. Unexpectedly, bilinguals tended to make more frequent fixations to on-screen objects, whether or not they were cued by the actor. These results suggest that gaze sensitivity is a fundamental aspect of development that is robust to variation in language exposure. Individual participatin laboratories acknowledge funding support from: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (402470-2011; 2018-04390); the National Science Foundation (BCS-155719); the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC ES/L008955/1); the European Research Council Advanced Grant, UNDER CONTROL (323961); the European Research Council Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant (798658); the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2015-009); the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD083312); the European Research Council Synergy Grant (SOMICS 609819); the Early Career Research Grant & Start-up Grant, Western Sydney University; Research Manitoba University of Manitoba, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba; and the ODPRT funds, National University of Singapore. |
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