Assessing the Effect of Object Locations on Word Learning During Naturalistic Adult-Child Interactions

Mosteller, Sara; Wijeakumar, Sobanawartiny; Wass, Sam

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess previously observed relationships between object locations and early word learning within an ecologically valid design. Adults labelled objects during openly structured interactions with their child. Fine-grained distributions of object locations were determined by a convolutional neural network. However, an analysis of the distributions of these locations during the naming events revealed that none of the spatial variables: the areas, overlap, or distances, were able to predict which corresponding labels were learned by the child. A consequent power analysis enabled a specific prediction for future work: that a negative-going relationship between the mean proportion of overlap between each object and the others, and the likelihood of learning a corresponding label, would be uncovered in sample size of around 70 dyads.

Citation

Mosteller, S., Wijeakumar, S., & Wass, S. (2024). Assessing the Effect of Object Locations on Word Learning During Naturalistic Adult-Child Interactions

• Working Paper Type: Preprint
• Online Publication Date: Sep 9, 2024
• Publication Date: Sep 9, 2024
• Deposit Date: Mar 24, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 25, 2025
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wszcu
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/39465636
• Publisher URL: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/wszcu_v1