Early Event Understanding Predicts Later Verb Comprehension and Motion Event Lexicalization

dc.contributor.author Aktan Erciyes, Aslı
dc.contributor.author Göksun, Tilbe
dc.contributor.other Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-12T11:48:15Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-12T11:48:15Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.department Fakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Psikoloji Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Before 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.sponsorship Tubitak James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 7
dc.identifier.doi 10.1037/dev0000804 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 2262 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0012-1649 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1939-0599 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0012-1649
dc.identifier.issn 1939-0599
dc.identifier.issue 11 en_US
dc.identifier.pmid 31436456 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85071107433 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 2249 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3527
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000804
dc.identifier.volume 55 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000492783100001 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.institutionauthor Aktan-Erciyes, Aslı en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Amer Psychologıcal Assoc en_US
dc.relation.journal Developmental Psychology en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 10
dc.subject Event conceptualization en_US
dc.subject Verb learning en_US
dc.subject Motion event lexicalization en_US
dc.subject Relational words en_US
dc.title Early Event Understanding Predicts Later Verb Comprehension and Motion Event Lexicalization en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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