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Kucker, Sarah C and Samuelson, Larissa K 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9141-3286
(2012)
The first slow step:Differential effects of object and word-form familiarization on retention of fast-mapped words.
Infancy, 17 (3).
pp. 295-323.
ISSN 1525-0008
Abstract
Recent research demonstrated that although twenty-four month-old infants do well on the initial pairing of a novel word and novel object in fast-mapping tasks, they are unable to retain the mapping after a five-minute delay. The current study examines the role of familiarity with the objects and words on infants' ability to bridge between the initial fast mapping of a name and object, and later retention in the service of slow mapping. Twenty-four-month-old infants were familiarized with either novel objects or novel names prior to the referent selection portion of a fast-mapping task. When familiarized with the novel objects, infants retained the novel mapping after a delay, but not when familiarized with the novel words. This suggests familiarity with the object versus the word form leads to differential encoding of the name-object link. We discuss the implications of this finding for subsequent slow mapping.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2015 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 02:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55224 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00081.x |
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