What is ‘word understanding’ for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental CDI report

• Main Authors: Styles, Suzy, Plunkett, Kim
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101829; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18785
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Is parental report of comprehension valid for individual words? If so, how well must an infant know a word before their parents will report it as ‘understood’? We report an experiment in which parental report predicts infant performance in a referent identification task at 1 ; 6. Unlike in previous...