title: Perseverant responding in children's picture naming.
abstract: Two groups of children were given pictures of animals to name as quickly as they could. The groups comprised 40 nursery aged children (mean age 3; 11) and 40 Year 2 children (mean age 6;9) attending primary school in London. The 30 animals were presented one by one, on cards, and any errors made by the children were noted. Consistent with a similar object naming study with adults (Vitkovitch, Kirby & Tyrrell, 1996) and a study with children (Gershkoff-Stowe, 2002), picture naming errors referred to earlier named objects. However, while adults showed below-chance interference from objects that had only just been named (Lag 1), children were most susceptible to interference from very recently named objects (see also Gershkoff-Stowe, 2002). Furthermore, the proportion of younger children making Lag 1 errors was higher than the proportion of older children making Lag 1 errors. The results are discussed in relation to the activation levels of lexical representations.
authors.affiliation: University of East London.
authors.forename: Josephine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Booth
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vitkovitch
mesh_terms: D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception