Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names.

Early object name learning is often conceptualized as a problem of mapping heard names to referents. However, infants do not hear object names as discrete events but rather in extended interactions organized around goal-directed actions on objects. The present study examined the statistical structur...

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Published in:	Language Acquisition Vol. 30; no. 3/4; pp. 211 - 230
Main Authors:	Karmazyn-Raz, Hadar, Smith, Linda B.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Dec2023
Subjects:	Parent-infant relationships Action theory (Psychology) Discourse Distribution (Probability theory) Statistics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost