Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 115, Issue 2, Pages 297-308Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.02.006
Keywords
Grammatical gender; Semantic category; Familiar words; Toddler; Object identification; Language development
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The current study investigated the interaction of implicit grammatical gender and semantic category knowledge during object identification. German-learning toddlers (24-month-olds) were presented with picture pairs and heard a noun (without a preceding article) labeling one of the pictures. Labels for target and distracter images either matched or mismatched in grammatical gender and either matched or mismatched in semantic category. When target and distracter overlapped in both semantic and gender information, target recognition was impaired compared with when target and distracter overlapped on only one dimension. Results suggest that by 24 months of age, German-learning toddlers are already forming not only semantic but also grammatical gender categories and that these sources of information are activated, and interact, during object identification. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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