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Comparative Study
. 2008 Sep;108(3):825-30.
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.009. Epub 2008 Jul 2.

Infants discriminate manners and paths in non-linguistic dynamic events

Rachel Pulverman  1 , Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jennifer Sootsman Buresh
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Comparative Study

Infants discriminate manners and paths in non-linguistic dynamic events

Rachel Pulverman et al. Cognition. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

Do 14- to 17-month-olds notice the paths and manners of motion events? English- and Spanish-learning infants were habituated to an animated motion event including a manner (e.g., spinning) and a path (e.g., over). They were then tested on four types of events that changed either the manner, the path, both, or neither component. Both English- and Spanish-learning infants attended to changes of manner and changes of path. Thus, infants from two different language communities proved sensitive to components of events that undergird relational term learning.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Manners and paths used in stimuli. Although illustrated as a series of static postures, the starfish performed the manners as continuous motions. (Fig. 5.1 from Chp. “Conceptual Foundations for Verb Learning: Celebrating the Event” by R. Pulverman et al. p. 142 from Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs, edited by K. Hirsh-Pasek and R. M. Golinkoff (2006). By permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Differences in visual fixation times between each type of change trial and the control trial for infants learning English and Spanish.
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