ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2020
Toddlers' word learning through overhearing: Others' attention matters.
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- Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Personal pronoun comprehension in addressed and non-addressed situations in autistic and nonautistic preschoolers.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2025Article
- Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- Direct and Observed Joint Attention Modulate 9-Month-Old Infants' Object Encoding.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- Understanding Child-Directed Speech Around Book Reading in Toddler Classrooms: Evidence From Early Head Start Programs.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Exploring Cues of Reciprocity in Third-Party Word Learning.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
In laboratory settings children are able to learn new words from overheard interactions, yet in naturalistic contexts this is often not the case. We investigated the degree to which joint attention within the overheard interaction facilitates overheard learning. In the study, 20 2-year-olds were tested on novel words they had been exposed to in two different overhearing contexts: one in which both interlocutors were attending to the interaction and one in which one interlocutor was not attending. Participants learned the new words only in the former condition, indicating that they did not learn when joint attention was absent. This finding demonstrates that not all overheard interactions are equally good for word learning; attentive interlocutors are crucial when learning words through overhearing.
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