The Origins of Verb Learning: Preverbal and Postverbal Infants' Learning of Word –Action Relations

Conclusions These findings on verb learning from inside and outside the laboratory suggest a developmental shift from domain-general to language-specific mechanisms. Long before they talk, infants learning a noun-dominant language learn synchronous word –action relations. As a postverbal language-specific noun bias develops, this learning temporarily diminishes.Supplemental Materialshttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5592637

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research