Early Event Understanding Predicts Later Verb Comprehension and Motion Event Lexicalization

dc.contributor.authorAktan-Erciyes, Aslı
dc.contributor.authorGöksun, Tilbe
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-12T11:48:15Z
dc.date.available2020-12-12T11:48:15Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentFakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractBefore infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization are related to children's later verb comprehension (Konishi, Stahl, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2016). We asked: (a) Do infants learning Turkish, a verb-framed language, attend to both manner and path changes in motion events? (b) Is early detection of path and manner related to children's later verb comprehension and (c) how they describe motion events? Thirty-two Turkish-reared children were tested at three time points. At Time 1, infants (M-age = 14.5 months) were tested on their detection of changes in path and manner using the Preferential Looking Paradigm. At Time 2, children were tested on their receptive language skills (M-age = 22.07 months). At Time 3, children performed 3 tasks (M-age = 35.05 months): a verb comprehension task, an event description task depicting motion events with different path and manner combinations, and an expressive language task. The ability to detect changes in event components at Time 1 predicted verb comprehension abilities at Time 3, beyond general receptive and expressive vocabulary skills at Times 2 and 3. Infants who noticed changes in path and manner at Time 1 used fewer manner-only descriptions and more path-any descriptions (i.e., descriptions that included a path component with or without manner) in their speech at Time 3. These findings suggest that early detection of event components is associated not only with verb comprehension, but also with how children lexicalize event components in line with their native language.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTubitak James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Awarden_US
dc.identifier.citation7
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/dev0000804en_US
dc.identifier.endpage2262en_US
dc.identifier.issn0012-1649en_US
dc.identifier.issn1939-0599en_US
dc.identifier.issn0012-1649
dc.identifier.issn1939-0599
dc.identifier.issue11en_US
dc.identifier.pmid31436456en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85071107433en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage2249en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3527
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000804
dc.identifier.volume55en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000492783100001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.institutionauthorAktan-Erciyes, Aslıen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmer Psychologıcal Assocen_US
dc.relation.journalDevelopmental Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectEvent conceptualizationen_US
dc.subjectVerb learningen_US
dc.subjectMotion event lexicalizationen_US
dc.subjectRelational wordsen_US
dc.titleEarly Event Understanding Predicts Later Verb Comprehension and Motion Event Lexicalizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication

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