Infants' ability to consult the speaker for clues to word reference  

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BALDWIN, DARE A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 20 no. 2 (Jun. 1993), page 395-418.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This research examines whether infants actively seek information from a speaker regarding the referent of the speaker's utterance. Forty-eight infants (in three age groups: 1;2-1;3, 1;4-1;5, and 1;6-1;7) heard novel labels for novel objects in two situations: follow-in labelling (the experimenter looked at and labelled the toy of the infant's focus) vs. discrepant labelling (the experimenter looked at and labelled a different toy than that of the infant's focus). Subsequently, half of the infants were asked comprehension questions (e.g. 'Where's the peri?'). The other half were asked preference questions (e.g. 'Where's the one you like? '), to ensure that their comprehension performance was not merely the result of preferential responding. The comprehension results revealed developmental change in both (a) infants' ability to establish new word-object mappings (infants aged 1; 2-1 ; 3 failed to establish stable word-object links even in follow-in labelling), and (b) infants' ability to pinpoint the correct referent during discrepant labelling (only infants aged I; 6-1; 7 succeeded). Thus the period between I; 2 and I; 7 represents a time of change in infants' ability to establish new wordobject mappings: infants are becoming increasingly adept at acquiring new labels under minimal learning conditions.

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