Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language
Book Chapter
Pruden, SM, Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, RM. (2008). Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language
. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0008
Pruden, SM, Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, RM. (2008). Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language
. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0008
This chapter focuses on what children need to know about events before they learn their first verbs and, more broadly, their first relational terms. Topics covered include when infants begin to perceive, process, and represent actions and spatial relations; the cues used to segment events into meaningful units; research on infants' ability to discriminate the semantic components containment, support, and degree of fit; research on infants' discrimination of path and manner; and factors that hinder or support infants' abstraction and categorization of spatial relations.
