CASA MILA : Cross-cultural and social aspects of multimodal interactions in language acquisition

This poster introduces the recently started CASA MILA project, which aims to study cross-cultural and social aspects of multimodal interactions aimed to establish joint attention and their impact on language development with infants and artificial agents. One of the objectives of the study is to collect data on the usage frequencies of three different types of joint attention and feed these into a simulation of the Talking Heads experiment in order to test mechanisms that would underlie the learning of word-meaning mappings. The poster will present some empirical findings from the pilot project that is currently been carried out in Mozambique.