Infants' responses to objects representing levels of word knowledge and categorical information

Citation
Ph. Smith et al., Infants' responses to objects representing levels of word knowledge and categorical information, INFANT BEH, 22(4), 1999, pp. 511-526
Citations number
49
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN journal
0163-6383 → ACNP
Volume
22
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
511 - 526
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-6383(1999)22:4<511:IRTORL>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The effects of differing levels of word knowledge on infants' sequential to uching behaviors were investigated in two studies. In both, parent report w as used to assess three levels of word knowledge: known, frontier, and unkn own. In the first study, 14-month-old infants sequentially touched objects consistent with parents' reports of their word knowledge. In the second stu dy, 20-month-old infants sequentially touched objects by both conceptual ca tegory and reported level of word knowledge. It appears that even infants, like adults, can make distinctions among objects on the basis of their know ledge about the objects' labels.