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Infants and toddlers develop through exploration of their environment and in interaction with caregivers. This study focusses on naturalistic contexts, the home and centre-based childcare in a diverse sample of infants/toddlers. This provides insights regarding the effects of these contexts, while enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms of early vocabulary development, also in children from lower socioeconomic families, who often lag behind in vocabulary development.
Initial evidence suggests that the combination of exploration and human interaction, such that objects are named at the right time, during moments of so-called embodied attention (when children hold an object such that it dominates their visual field), may serve as main learning mechanisms in early vocabulary development. While previous research has been mainly conducted in the lab with middleclass families, this study focusses on naturalistic contexts, the home and centre-based childcare in a diverse sample of infants/toddlers. The aims of the project are:
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