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At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns

机译：在6到9个月大时，人类婴儿知道许多常见名词的含义

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It is widely accepted that infants begin learning their native language not by learning words, but by discovering features of the speech signal: consonants, vowels, and combinations of these sounds. Learning to understand words, as opposed to just perceiving their sounds, is said to come later, between 9 and 15 mo of age, when infants develop a capacity for interpreting others' goals and intentions. Here, we demonstrate that this consensus about the developmental sequence of human language learning is flawed: in fact, infants already know the meanings of several common words from the age of 6 mo onward. We presented 6- to 9-mo-old infants with sets of pictures to view while their parent named a picture in each set. Over this entire age range, infants directed their gaze to the named pictures, indicating their understanding of spoken words. Because the words were not trained in the laboratory, the results show that even young infants learn ordinary words through daily experience with language. This surprising accomplishment indicates that, contrary to prevailing beliefs, either infants can already grasp the referential intentions of adults at 6 mo or infants can learn words before this ability emerges. The precocious discovery of word meanings suggests a perspective in which learning vocabulary and learning the sound structure of spoken language go hand in hand as language acquisition begins.
机译：人们普遍认为婴儿开始学习母语不是通过学习单词，而是通过发现语音信号的特征：辅音，元音以及这些声音的组合。据说要学会理解单词，而不是仅仅感知他们的声音，这要晚于9到15个月大，那时婴儿会发展出能够理解他人目标和意图的能力。在这里，我们证明了有关人类语言学习发展顺序的共识是有缺陷的：实际上，婴儿从6个月起就已经知道几个常见单词的含义。我们为6至9个月大的婴儿提供了图片集，供他们观看，而他们的父母则在每组图片中命名。在整个年龄范围内，婴儿将视线对准命名的图片，表明他们对口语的理解。由于单词不是在实验室中接受训练的，因此结果表明，即使是幼儿，也可以通过日常的语言学习来学习普通单词。这一令人惊讶的成就表明，与普遍的看法相反，婴儿已经可以在6个月时掌握成年人的参考意图，或者婴儿可以在这种能力出现之前学习单词。对词义的早熟发现提出了这样一种观点，即随着语言习得的开始，学习词汇和学习口语的声音结构齐头并进。

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