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| Title |
The precision of 12-month-old infants’ link between language and categorization predicts vocabulary size at 12 and 18 months
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01319 |
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| Authors |
Brock Ferguson, Mélanie Havy, Sandra R. Waxman |
| Abstract |
Infants' initially broad links between language and object categories are increasingly tuned, becoming more precise by the end of their first year. In a longitudinal study, we asked whether individual differences in the precision of infants' links at 12 months of age are related to vocabulary development. We found that, at 12 months, infants who had already established a precise link between labels and categories understood more words than those whose link was still broad. Six months later, this advantage held: At 18 months, infants who had demonstrated a precise link at 12 months knew and produced more words than did infants who had demonstrated a broad link at 12 months. We conclude that individual differences in the precision of 12-month-old infants' links between language and categories provide a reliable window into their vocabulary development. We consider several causal explanations of this relation. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Canada | 2 | 33% |
| France | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 54 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 54 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 22% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Researcher | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 17% |
| Unknown | 8 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 32 | 59% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 2% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2016.
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