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The relationship between early verb comprehension and developing motor skills in 9- to 20-month-olds ...
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We investigated infants’ understanding of words that refer to action events. Based on the argument that changes in motor abilities may have important influences on language development (Iverson, 2010), we hypothesize that differences in comprehension ability might be related to infants’ experiences with different kinds of motor actions. New motor abilities provide new opportunities for infants to explore their physical world (Smith et al., 2007). Direct experience with an action might enable infants to expand their comprehension abilities (Huttenlocher et al., 1983). Motor abilities also provide new opportunities for infants to engage with social partners and might prompt more talk about actions (Karasik et al. 2008; Reid et al., 2010). If motor experience influences vocabulary development, then infants might show better comprehension for actions with which they have more experience. We tested for comprehension of two types of action events in a split-screen preferential looking paradigm: seated posture with ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17910/b7.891
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Why the Body Comes First: Effects of Experimenter Touch on Infants' Word Finding
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In: Faculty Journal Articles (2015)
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Six-month-olds Comprehend Words That Refer to Parts of the Body
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In: Faculty Journal Articles (2011)
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The role of speech rhythm in language discrimination: further tests with a non-human primate.
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In: ISSN: 1363-755X ; EISSN: 1467-7687 ; Developmental Science ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00260024 ; Developmental Science, Wiley, 2005, 8 (1), pp.26-35. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00390.x⟩ (2005)
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