TY - JOUR
T1 - Cracking the code
T2 - Social and contextual cues to language input in the home environment
AU - Custode, Stephanie A.
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Tiffany Lo, Kathy Yu, Elena Dimaano, and Luxi Wang for work on coding and other aspects of the study. This work was conducted at NYU as a MA thesis by the lead author. We are grateful to the participating families who allowed us to visit their homes to understand infants’ natural, everyday activities, and language experiences. The authors acknowledge funding from the LEGO Foundation and NICHD grant R01 HD094830‐01 to Catherine S. Tamis‐LeMonda and Karen E. Adolph.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS)
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Infants use social cues like gaze and touch, typically during joint attention with caregivers, to decipher word meaning. Yet, studies on cues to word meaning primarily rely on structured tasks, where distractors are few compared to the countless objects that vie for attention in the home environment. Forty mothers and their 13-month-old infants were video-recorded during home routines. From transcripts, 3,000+ “naming events” were coded for social (visual and manual) and contextual (location: room and place) cues to the object of reference. Mother and infant visual and tactile attention accompanied naming events with high regularity, and the objects mothers named were specific to room and place. Nested social and contextual cues infuse infants’ everyday language experiences in ways that help infants disambiguate word meaning.
AB - Infants use social cues like gaze and touch, typically during joint attention with caregivers, to decipher word meaning. Yet, studies on cues to word meaning primarily rely on structured tasks, where distractors are few compared to the countless objects that vie for attention in the home environment. Forty mothers and their 13-month-old infants were video-recorded during home routines. From transcripts, 3,000+ “naming events” were coded for social (visual and manual) and contextual (location: room and place) cues to the object of reference. Mother and infant visual and tactile attention accompanied naming events with high regularity, and the objects mothers named were specific to room and place. Nested social and contextual cues infuse infants’ everyday language experiences in ways that help infants disambiguate word meaning.
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U2 - 10.1111/infa.12361
DO - 10.1111/infa.12361
M3 - Article
C2 - 32869471
AN - SCOPUS:85089995996
SN - 1525-0008
VL - 25
SP - 809
EP - 826
JO - Infancy
JF - Infancy
IS - 6
ER -