By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- DURHAM, N.C. -- The meaning behind infants’ screeches, squeals and wails may frustrate and confound sleep-deprived new parents. But at an age when babies cannot yet speak to us in words, they are already avid students of language.
“Even though there aren’t many overt signals of language knowledge in babies, language is definitely developing furiously under the surface,” said Elika Bergelson, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University.
Bergelson is the author of a surprising 2012 study showing that six- to nine-month-olds already have a basic understanding of words for food and body parts. In a new report, her team used eye-tracking software to show that babies also recognize that the meanings of some words, like car and stroller, are more alike than others, like car and juice.
By analyzing home recordings, the team found that babies’ word knowledge correlated with the proportion of time …
CITATION: (2017-12-08), Car, stroller, juice: Babies understand when words are related, Health & Medicine Week, 1972, ISSN: 1532-4605, BUTTER® ID: 014811656
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