In the first part of the study, 51 healthy six-month old babies took part in an eye-tracking experiment in the laboratory. The team then tracked how long the babies looked at the item that the parent had mentioned. But she stressed that the study did not mean that six-month old infants “know” that words are linked. “All the food words come in the same meal-time situation, all the clothing words and body-part words come in the same nappy-changing and clothes-changing situation. All those words are going to be related to each other in the child’s experience and they haven’t sorted them out yet,” she said.

Source: The Guardian November 20, 2017 19:52 UTC