Word knowledge in six- to nine-month-old Norwegian infants? Not without additional frequency cues.

ABSTRACT: The past 5 years have witnessed claims that infants as young as six months of age understand the meaning of several words. To reach this conclusion, researchers presented infants with pairs of pictures from distinct semantic domains and observed longer looks at an object upon hearing its name as compared with the name of the other object. However, these gaze patterns might indicate infants' sensibility to the word frequency and/or its contextual relatedness to the object regardless of a firm semantic understanding of this word. The current study attempted, first, to replicate, in Norwegian language, the results of recent studies showing that six- to nine-month-old English-learning infants understand the meaning of many common words. Second, it assessed the robustness of a 'comprehension' i

SUBMITTER: Kartushina N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774954 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature