TY - JOUR
T1 - Twenty-Five Years Using the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm to Study Language Acquisition
T2 - What Have We Learned?
AU - Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick
AU - Ma, Weiyi
AU - Song, Lulu
AU - Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' language comprehension is measured by their differential visual fixation to two images presented side-by-side when only one of the images matches an accompanying linguistic stimulus. Researchers can examine burgeoning knowledge in the areas of phonology, semantics, syntax, and morphology in infants not yet speaking. The IPLP enables the exploration of the underlying mechanisms involved in language learning and illuminates how infants identify the correspondences between language and referents in the world. It has also fostered the study of infants' conceptions of the dynamic events that language will express. Exemplifying translational science, the IPLP is now being investigated for its clinical and diagnostic value.
AB - The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' language comprehension is measured by their differential visual fixation to two images presented side-by-side when only one of the images matches an accompanying linguistic stimulus. Researchers can examine burgeoning knowledge in the areas of phonology, semantics, syntax, and morphology in infants not yet speaking. The IPLP enables the exploration of the underlying mechanisms involved in language learning and illuminates how infants identify the correspondences between language and referents in the world. It has also fostered the study of infants' conceptions of the dynamic events that language will express. Exemplifying translational science, the IPLP is now being investigated for its clinical and diagnostic value.
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U2 - 10.1177/1745691613484936
DO - 10.1177/1745691613484936
M3 - Article
C2 - 26172975
AN - SCOPUS:84877128430
SN - 1745-6916
VL - 8
SP - 316
EP - 339
JO - Perspectives on Psychological Science
JF - Perspectives on Psychological Science
IS - 3
ER -