Plunkett, Kim and Delle Luche, Claire and Hills, Thomas and Floccia, Caroline (2022) Tracking the associative boost in infancy. Infancy, 27 (6). pp. 1179-1196. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12502
Plunkett, Kim and Delle Luche, Claire and Hills, Thomas and Floccia, Caroline (2022) Tracking the associative boost in infancy. Infancy, 27 (6). pp. 1179-1196. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12502
Plunkett, Kim and Delle Luche, Claire and Hills, Thomas and Floccia, Caroline (2022) Tracking the associative boost in infancy. Infancy, 27 (6). pp. 1179-1196. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12502
Abstract
Do words that are both associatively and taxonomically related prime each other in the infant mental lexicon? We explore the impact of these semantic relations in the emerging lexicon. Using the head-turn preference procedure, we show that 18-month-old infants have begun to construct a semantic network of associatively and taxonomically related words, such as dog-cat or apple-cheese. We demonstrate that priming between words is longer-lasting when the relationship is both taxonomic and associative, as opposed to purely taxonomic, reflecting the associative boost reported in the adult priming literature. Our results demonstrate that 18-month-old infants are able to construct a lexical-semantic network based on associative and taxonomic relations between words in the network, and that lexical-semantic links are more robust when they are both associative and taxonomic in character. Furthermore, the manner in which activation is propagated through the emerging lexical-semantic network appears to depend upon the type of semantic relation between words. We argue that 18-month-old infants have a mental lexicon that shares important structural and processing properties with that of the adult system.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2022 10:33 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2022 17:43 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33410 |
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