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Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient
Much of what is known about word recognition in toddlers comes from eyetracking studies. Here we show that the speed and facility with which children recognize words, as revealed in such studies, cannot be attributed to a task-specific, closed-set strategy; rather, children’s gaze to referents of sp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3749997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23991189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073359 |
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description | Much of what is known about word recognition in toddlers comes from eyetracking studies. Here we show that the speed and facility with which children recognize words, as revealed in such studies, cannot be attributed to a task-specific, closed-set strategy; rather, children’s gaze to referents of spoken nouns reflects successful search of the lexicon. Toddlers’ spoken word comprehension was examined in the context of pictures that had two possible names (such as a cup of juice which could be called “cup” or “juice”) and pictures that had only one likely name for toddlers (such as “apple”), using a visual world eye-tracking task and a picture-labeling task (n = 77, mean age, 21 months). Toddlers were just as fast and accurate in fixating named pictures with two likely names as pictures with one. If toddlers do name pictures to themselves, the name provides no apparent benefit in word recognition, because there is no cost to understanding an alternative lexical construal of the picture. In toddlers, as in adults, spoken words rapidly evoke their referents. |
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spelling | pubmed-37499972013-08-29 Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient Bergelson, Elika Swingley, Daniel PLoS One Research Article Much of what is known about word recognition in toddlers comes from eyetracking studies. Here we show that the speed and facility with which children recognize words, as revealed in such studies, cannot be attributed to a task-specific, closed-set strategy; rather, children’s gaze to referents of spoken nouns reflects successful search of the lexicon. Toddlers’ spoken word comprehension was examined in the context of pictures that had two possible names (such as a cup of juice which could be called “cup” or “juice”) and pictures that had only one likely name for toddlers (such as “apple”), using a visual world eye-tracking task and a picture-labeling task (n = 77, mean age, 21 months). Toddlers were just as fast and accurate in fixating named pictures with two likely names as pictures with one. If toddlers do name pictures to themselves, the name provides no apparent benefit in word recognition, because there is no cost to understanding an alternative lexical construal of the picture. In toddlers, as in adults, spoken words rapidly evoke their referents. Public Library of Science 2013-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3749997/ /pubmed/23991189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073359 Text en © 2013 Bergelson, Swingley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bergelson, Elika Swingley, Daniel Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient |
title | Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient |
title_full | Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient |
title_fullStr | Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient |
title_full_unstemmed | Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient |
title_short | Young Toddlers’ Word Comprehension Is Flexible and Efficient |
title_sort | young toddlers’ word comprehension is flexible and efficient |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3749997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23991189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073359 |
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