Floor Penelope, Akhtar Nameera
Department of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz.
Infancy. 2006 May;9(3):327-339. doi: 10.1207/s15327078in0903_4. Epub 2006 May 1.
Previous research has shown that children as young as 2 can learn words from 3rd-party conversations (Akhtar, Jipson, & Callanan, 2001). The focus of this study was to determine whether younger infants could learn a new word through overhearing. Novel object labels were introduced to 18-month-old infants in 1 of 2 conditions: directly by an experimenter or in the context of overhearing the experimenter use the word while interacting with another adult. The findings suggest that, when memory demands are not too high, 18-month-old infants can learn words through overhearing.
先前的研究表明，年仅2岁的儿童就能从第三方对话中学到单词（阿赫塔尔、吉普森和卡拉南，2001年）。本研究的重点是确定更小的婴儿是否能通过偷听学到新单词。在两种条件中的一种下，向18个月大的婴儿介绍新的物体标签：一种是由实验者直接介绍，另一种是在婴儿偷听实验者与另一位成年人互动时使用该单词的情境下。研究结果表明，当记忆要求不太高时，18个月大的婴儿可以通过偷听学到单词。
