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TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of shyness on children's formation and retention of novel word–object mappings
AU - Hilton, Matt
AU - Westermann, Gert
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1017/S030500091600057X
DO - 10.1017/S030500091600057X
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27916017
VL - 44
SP - 1394
EP - 1412
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
SN - 0305-0009
IS - 6
ER -