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Leeuwen, Claire van (2016)

The Impact of Lexical Knowledge on Visual Rule Learning in 12- to 14-Month-Old Infants.

Master thesis | Linguistics (MA)

In this research we looked at whether infants (12- to 14-month-old) can succesfully use their lexical knowledge to aid them in acquiring an abstract grammatical rule about visually presented grammars. The infants in the known condition were unable to generalize this grammatical rule. However, there was learning in the nonsense condition.

linguistics

language development

Language acquisition

first language development

infants

lexical knowledge

visual rule learning

rule learning

Author

Leeuwen, Claire van

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Theoretical Linguistics and Cognition

Supervisors

Levelt, Claartje

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en