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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 76, Issue 5, Pages 989-998Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00892.x
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD-27271-17] Funding Source: Medline
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How do infants come to understand references to absent objects? 14-month-old infants first learned a name for a novel toy, which was then placed out of view. The infants who listened to a story mentioning the nonvisible object, looked, pointed, and searched for it more often than did infants who heard a story using a different name. Their behavior was affected by minor changes in context; they responded to the name of the out-of-view toy less often when it was not easily accessible or after a delay. These findings indicate that the development of absence reference comprehension depends on the interaction of representational and contextual factors.
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