NIH R01 · 2024
Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Determinants of Early Word Learning
Project Summary Early language skills like word learning predict later school, social, and behavioral outcomes. While word learning improves dramatically in year 2, so too do other social, cognitive, and linguistic skills, leading to debate about the factors that support word learning, and why it improves. Understanding early word comprehension (which precedes production) holds promise for clinical applications, where timely diagnosis and intervention is critical. The proposed work ties early word comprehension to other improving skills within infants, across year 2. Its overall objective is to establish specific factors that may make older infants better word learners than younger ones,…
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