Leader-follower dynamics during early social interactions matter for infant word learning
Louise Goupil,
Isabelle Dautriche,
Katherine Denman
et al.
Abstract:We know little about the extent to which infants’ interests shape their own language acquisition. We hypothesized that infants’ decisions to visually explore a specific object signal focal increases in attention, and that when caregivers respond to these manifestations of interest by naming the object this boosts word learning. To examine this, we invited caregivers and their 14-month-old infants to play with novel objects, before testing infants’ retention of the novel object-label mappings, while their elect… Show more
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