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Presentation 2008-08-08 16:15
Effect of Sentential Contexts on Word-Action Associations in 12-to 18-month-old Japanese Infants
Tessei Kobayashi, Ryoko Mugitani, Franklin Chang, Shigeaki Amano (NTT) TL2008-27
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) To address the issue of early verb learning, this study investigate the effect of sentential contexts on infants’ ability to associate words with actions. In a habituation paradigm, 12-, 14- and 18-month-old Japanese infants repeatedly watched computer-animated events in which a fish was engaged in rotating or rocking actions paired with novel words in three contexts: (1) in isolation (“boome” and “seppu”), (2) in a verb frame with a null subject (“[it] is daku/nema-ing”), and (3) in a verb frame with a subject (“boome is daku/nema-ing”). Then, infants alternately watched the same word-action pairs and the switched word-action pairs. Results showed that when the novel words were presented in isolation and in a verb frame with a null subject, the 14- and 18-month-olds, but not 12-month-olds, could associate words with actions. By contrast, when the novel words were presented in a verb frame with a subject, only 18-month-olds, but not 12- and 14-month-olds, could associate words with actions. This suggests that by 14 months, infants might begin to associate words with actions only in simpler sentential contexts.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Early Word Learning / Lexical Development / Sentence / Japanese / Infants / nouns and verbs / noun bias / habituation  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 184, TL2008-27, pp. 83-86, Aug. 2008.
Paper # TL2008-27 
Date of Issue 2008-08-01 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2008-08-08 - 2008-08-09 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Hotel Onikobe 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Human Sentence Processing and Production 
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Conference Code 2008-08-TL 
Language English 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Title (in English) Effect of Sentential Contexts on Word-Action Associations in 12-to 18-month-old Japanese Infants 
Sub Title (in English)  
Keyword(1) Early Word Learning  
Keyword(2) Lexical Development  
Keyword(3) Sentence  
Keyword(4) Japanese  
Keyword(5) Infants  
Keyword(6) nouns and verbs  
Keyword(7) noun bias  
Keyword(8) habituation  
1st Author's Name Tessei Kobayashi  
1st Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories (NTT)
2nd Author's Name Ryoko Mugitani  
2nd Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories (NTT)
3rd Author's Name Franklin Chang  
3rd Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories (NTT)
4th Author's Name Shigeaki Amano  
4th Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories (NTT)
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Date Time 2008-08-08 16:15:00 
Presentation Time 90 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2008-27 
Volume (vol) vol.108 
Number (no) no.184 
Page pp.83-86 
#Pages 4 
Date of Issue 2008-08-01 (TL) 

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