Influence of Training Type on Verb Learning in Young Children
Presentation Type
Poster
Faculty Advisor
Gregory Pope
Access Type
Event
Start Date
26-4-2024 2:15 PM
End Date
26-4-2024 3:15 PM
Description
Previous research suggests that structural alignment (children comparing instances to each other and aligning specific elements from one event to the other) influences verb learning at test. Additionally, training phases influences verb learning. We test whether exposing children to verbs in two types of training phases influences verb learning. Participants were 3-year old (n = 36) and 4-year old (n = 28) children. Children were exposed to one of two different training conditions (All Similar, AS; All Varied, AV). All training videos consisted of four sentences using the verb of interest. In the AS Training Condition (n = 34), all four sentences consisted of the same agents and patients, while in the AV condition (n = 30), each sentence contained different agents and patients. After listening to the training video, children were presented with verbs heard in two different sentences, one grammatical and one ungrammatical, and were asked to point to “who said it best”. A 2 x 2 ANOVA on children’s correct responses yielded no significant main effects of Age, F(1) = 2.67, p = .11 or Condition F(1) = .63, p = .43, but an interaction between age and condition approaching significance, F(1) = 3.60, p = .06. The results demonstrate a near-significant interaction between age and the type of training condition (all similar, all varied). We predict that
Influence of Training Type on Verb Learning in Young Children
Previous research suggests that structural alignment (children comparing instances to each other and aligning specific elements from one event to the other) influences verb learning at test. Additionally, training phases influences verb learning. We test whether exposing children to verbs in two types of training phases influences verb learning. Participants were 3-year old (n = 36) and 4-year old (n = 28) children. Children were exposed to one of two different training conditions (All Similar, AS; All Varied, AV). All training videos consisted of four sentences using the verb of interest. In the AS Training Condition (n = 34), all four sentences consisted of the same agents and patients, while in the AV condition (n = 30), each sentence contained different agents and patients. After listening to the training video, children were presented with verbs heard in two different sentences, one grammatical and one ungrammatical, and were asked to point to “who said it best”. A 2 x 2 ANOVA on children’s correct responses yielded no significant main effects of Age, F(1) = 2.67, p = .11 or Condition F(1) = .63, p = .43, but an interaction between age and condition approaching significance, F(1) = 3.60, p = .06. The results demonstrate a near-significant interaction between age and the type of training condition (all similar, all varied). We predict that
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Additional Author: Jane Childers