What is 'word understanding' for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental CDI report.

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ABSTRACTIs parental report of comprehension valid for individual words? If so, how well must an infant know a word before their parents will report it as 'understood'? We report an experiment in which parental report predicts infant performance in a referent identification task at 1 ; 6. Unlike in previous research of this kind (i.e. Houston-Price, Mather and Sakkalou, 2007), infants saw items only once, and image pairs were taxonomic sisters. The match between parental report and infant beha...

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Authors: Styles, S; Plunkett, K

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of child language
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 895-908
• Publication date: 2009-09-01
• DOI: 10.1017/s0305000908009264
• EISSN: 1469-7602
• ISSN: 0305-0009
• Language: English
• Keywords: Parents; Child Language; Speech Perception; Eye Movement Measurements; Analysis of Variance; Time Factors; Infant; Language Tests; Humans; Vocabulary; Comprehension