The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition?
To communicate successfully, speakers need to use words that are understood by their listeners; they thus need to understand that others have vocabularies different than their own. A key question is whether this social cognition skill is already present in infancy, and whether it can have an impact...
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| description | To communicate successfully, speakers need to use words that are understood by their listeners; they thus need to understand that others have vocabularies different than their own. A key question is whether this social cognition skill is already present in infancy, and whether it can have an impact on early language production. Analysis of the vocabularies of 550 Mexican children revealed that, at 24 months of age, but not at 18 nor at 30 months of age, those who were raised in households with larger numbers of children had more stereotypical vocabularies than those with fewer children. This finding is discussed in light of the hypothesis that communicative pressure may shape early word production; it suggests that bidirectional effects between social cognition and language acquisition are present at 2 years of age. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a6328169e2a400da4ea71c6c295a4ad2022-12-21T17:59:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-08-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.01445352016The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition?Julien Mayor0Natalia Arias-Trejo1Elda A. Alva2Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayFacultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, MexicoFacultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, MexicoTo communicate successfully, speakers need to use words that are understood by their listeners; they thus need to understand that others have vocabularies different than their own. A key question is whether this social cognition skill is already present in infancy, and whether it can have an impact on early language production. Analysis of the vocabularies of 550 Mexican children revealed that, at 24 months of age, but not at 18 nor at 30 months of age, those who were raised in households with larger numbers of children had more stereotypical vocabularies than those with fewer children. This finding is discussed in light of the hypothesis that communicative pressure may shape early word production; it suggests that bidirectional effects between social cognition and language acquisition are present at 2 years of age.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01445/fulllanguagesocial communicationinfantschildrenword learningcommunicative development inventories |
| spellingShingle | Julien Mayor Natalia Arias-Trejo Elda A. Alva The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? Frontiers in Psychology language social communication infants children word learning communicative development inventories |
| title | The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? |
| title_full | The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? |
| title_fullStr | The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? |
| title_short | The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? |
| title_sort | impact of household size on lexical typicality an early link between language and social cognition |
| topic | language social communication infants children word learning communicative development inventories |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01445/full |
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