Novel Word Learning- Article Search

[Bol, Simone]

It's not very recent, but seems to get close to your age group and
methodology, so may be of interest:

''Child meets word: fast mapping in preschool children'' by Chris
Dollaghan in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 1985 (vol.
28:449-454)

Good luck with the study,
Simone

Simone Bol
MMU

On Dec 21, 7:01 am, Jen Menjivar <jen.menji... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am designing a study in which we will be teaching children a set of novel
> words in a foreign language, and subsequently testing them on their ability
> to remember the objects they were paired with. I have been looking for
> studies in which children (preschool aged- 3 and 4 year olds) have been
> directly taught novel word and object pairs and tested in the same session.
> In my search, I have found many studies in which children have been taught
> the object-novel word pairs through naturalistic interactions (i.e,
> Gershkoff-Stowe & Hahn, 2007), but have not had much luck finding any
> studies in which the children are directly and explicitly taught novel
> labels for objects. Would anyone be able to point me in the direction that
> I'm looking for?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> ---
> Jennifer Menjivar
> Psychology Graduate Student
> University of California, Santa Cruz

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