TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hilton, Matt
A1  - Westermann, Gert
T1  - word-object mappings
JF  - Journal of child language
N2  - This study set out to examine whether shyness, an aversion to novelty and unfamiliar social situations, can affect the processes that underlie early word learning. Twenty-four-month-old children (n =32) were presented with sets of one novel and two familiar objects, and it was found that shyer children were less likely to select a novel object as the referent of a novel label. Furthermore, not-shy children then showed evidence of retaining these novel mappings, but shy children did not. These findings suggest that shy children's aversion to novelty and to the unfamiliar context can impact on their word learning.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091600057X
SN  - 0305-0009
SN  - 1469-7602
VL  - 44
SP  - 1394
EP  - 1412
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -