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Children’s Language Learning and Processing in Digital Social Interactions
(2025-01-10)Language is inherently a social tool, and nearly all questions concerning its origins, development, and processing raise a discussion of social interactions. As technological advancements transform how we communicate – ... -
Caregiver-child dynamics in early language development: The influence of children’s interests and parental input on children’s word learning
(2024-10-30)Active child views of children’s development postulate that children are active participants in their own learning and development, choosing what information and from whom to learn. More recently, research has demonstrated ... -
Are words special in early development?
(2023-08-03)In the realm of early development, words have been considered as unique due to their ability to facilitate the formation of physical object categories by highlighting common visual features among them. Nevertheless, ... -
Bagger or Bär? The influence of individual interests on early word learning
(2023-01-03)Young children are remarkable word learners: At the end of the first year of life, typically developing children only produce a handful of words, but their vocabularies grow many times over during the second and third year ... -
Phonological and Semantic Overlap Between Words: Effects on Recognition of Familiar and Recently Acquired Words in Early Childhood
(2022-04-14)Classical research on word recognition describes how when adult participants are presented with pairs of words that share phonemes or belong to the same semantic category, the processing of the second word is facilitated ... -
Kommunikation in Echtzeit - die Einflüsse von kindgerichteter Sprache und kindlicher Aufmerksamkeit auf den Spracherwerb
(2021-09-23)In order to segment, understand and ultimately produce words from the flow of language, a series of learning processes are required. These processes are promoted by various extrinsic factors and intrinsic biases. This ... -
Deeds not Words? Dynamics in Word and Action Learning during Early Childhood
(2019-10-08)Children grow up in a complex, multimodal environment and need to extract information from this environment to learn about the world. When caregivers interact with their children, they often use words and actions concurrently, ... -
Exploring Early Language Acquisition from Different Kinds of Input: The Role of Attention
(2017-10-16)While most research on infant word segmentation has investigated the extraction of words from fluent speech in standard laboratory settings, the series of experiments in this dissertation examined the role of different ...