What is 'word understanding' for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental CDI report.
ABSTRACTIs parental report of comprehension valid for individual words? If so, how well must an infant know a word before their parents will report it as 'understood'? We report an experiment in which parental report predicts infant performance in a referent identification task at 1 ; 6. Unlike in previous research of this kind (i.e. Houston-Price, Mather & Sakkalou, 2007), infants saw items only once, and image pairs were taxonomic sisters. The match between parental report and infant behaviour provides evidence of the item-level accuracy of both measures of lexical comprehension, and informs our understanding of how British parents interpret standardized Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs).
Styles
Suzy
S
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. suzy.styles@psy.ox.ac.uk
Plunkett
Kim
K
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002663:Child Language; D032882:Comprehension; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007807:Language Tests; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D014825:Vocabulary