Carmel Houston-Price
Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behaviour in a preferential looking task
Houston-Price, Carmel; Mather, Emily; Sakkalou, Elena
Abstract
Two experiments are described which explore the relationship between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabularies at 1;6 (Experiment 1a) or 1;3, 1;6 and 1;9. (Experiment 1b) and the comprehension infants demonstrated in a preferential looking task. The instrument used was the Oxford CDI, a British English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Words Ss Gestures). Infants were shown pairs of images of familiar objects, either both name-known or both name-unknown according to their parent's responses on the CDI. At all ages, and on both name-known and name-unknown trials, preference for the target image increased significantly from baseline when infants heard the target's label. This discrepancy suggests that parental report underestimates infants' word knowledge. © 2007 Cambridge University Press.
Citation
Houston-Price, C., Mather, E., & Sakkalou, E. (2007). Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behaviour in a preferential looking task. Journal of child language, 34(4), 701-724. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000907008124
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Oct 24, 2007 |
Publication Date | 2007-11 |
Deposit Date | May 31, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Child Language |
Print ISSN | 0305-0009 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 34 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 701-724 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000907008124 |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/724011 |
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