Consistency of co-occurring actions influences young children's word learning.

ABSTRACT: Communication with young children is often multimodal in nature, involving, for example, language and actions. The simultaneous presentation of information from both domains may boost language learning by highlighting the connection between an object and a word, owing to temporal overlap in the presentation of multimodal input. However, the overlap is not merely temporal but can also covary in the extent to which particular actions co-occur with particular words and objects, e.g. carers typically produce a hopping action when talking about rabbits and a snapping action for crocodiles. The frequency with which actions and words co-occurs in the presence of the referents of these words may also impact young children's word learning. We, therefore, examined the extent to which consistency in

SUBMITTER: Eiteljoerge SFV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731739 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature