{"pk":27474,"title":"How infants map nonce phrases to scenes with objects and predicates.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"When infants hear sentences containing unfamiliar words, are some language-world links (such as noun-object)more readily formed than others (verb-predicate)? What if the context renders verb-predicate and noun-object interpretationsequally plausible? We examined 14-15-month-olds’ capacity for linking semantic elements of scenes with simple bisyllabicnonce utterances. Each syllable either referred to the object, or the object’s motion. Infants heard the syllables in either a VS-or SV-consistent order. Learning was tested using 2AFC language-guided looking. Infants learned the nouns and verbs equallywell, showing no bias favoring nouns. In all conditions, infants learned the meaning of the utterance-final syllable, but not theinitial one, suggesting that noun or verb biases played a smaller role than utterance position when noun- and verb-learning wereequally supported by context.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98s1w1c6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angelica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Buerkin-Pontrelli","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Swingley","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27474/galley/17110/download/"}]}