Peg Hull Smith

Publications (2)1.26 Total impact

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  Available from: Wallace E Dixon

  Article: Links between early temperament and language acquisition

  Wallace E. Dixon Jr, Peg Hull Smith
  Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 01/2000; 46(3):417-440. · 1.26 Impact Factor
• Article: Infants’ responses to objects representing levels of word knowledge and categorical information

  Peg Hull Smith, Jeannette Whitmore, Wendelyn J Shore, Christopher W Robinson, Wallace E Dixon Jr
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  ABSTRACT: The effects of differing levels of word knowledge on infants’ sequential touching behaviors were investigated in two studies. In both, parent report was used to assess three levels of word knowledge: known, frontier, and unknown. In the first study, 14-month-old infants sequentially touched objects consistent with parents’ reports of their word knowledge. In the second study, 20-month-old infants sequentially touched objects by both conceptual category and reported level of word knowledge. It appears that even infants, like adults, can make distinctions among objects on the basis of their knowledge about the objects’ labels.
  Infant Behavior and Development. 22(4):511-526.