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Perry, Lynn K, Samuelson, Larissa K 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9141-3286 and Burdinie, Johanna B
(2014)
Highchair philosophers:The impact of seating context-dependent exploration on children's naming biases.
Developmental Science, 17 (5).
pp. 757-765.
ISSN 1363-755X
Abstract
We examine developmental interactions between context, exploration, and word learning. Infants show an understanding of how nonsolid substances are categorized that does not reliably transfer to learning how these categories are named in laboratory tasks. We argue that what infants learn about naming nonsolid substances is contextually bound - most nonsolids that toddlers are familiar with are foods and thus, typically experienced when sitting in a highchair. We asked whether 16-month-old children's naming of nonsolids would improve if they were tested in that typical context. Children tested in the highchair demonstrated better understanding of how nonsolids are named. Furthermore, context-based differences in exploration drove differences in the properties attended to in real-time. We discuss what implications this context-dependency has for understanding the development of an ontological distinction between solids and nonsolids. Together, these results demonstrate a developmental cascade between context, exploration, and word learning.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | association learning,bias,exploratory behavior,female,generalization,humans,infant,language development,male,names,social behavior,verbal learning,vocabulary |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2015 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 00:25 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55222 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/desc.12147 |
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