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The precision of 12-month-old infants’ link between language and categorization predicts vocabulary size at 12 and 18 months

Description:

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,...

Keyword:

categorization, word learning, longitudinal, vocabulary, individual differences, and infants

Creator:

Melanie Havy, Brock Ferguson, and Sandra R. Waxman

Owner:

Chris Diaz

Publisher:

Frontiers

Date Uploaded:

05/08/2017

Date Modified:

05/08/2017

Date Created:

2015-08-31

Resource Type:

Article