Browsing by Subject "word learning"
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(2018-03-13)Department: PsychologyThere are conflicting accounts of how context variability affects children's word learning. In some instances, children show learning independent of context variability (e.g., Akhtar, 2005). There may also be cases where ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: PsychologyTwo aspects of children’s understanding of Gricean maxims were investigated. First, children’s awareness of adherence to the maxims of quality and relation was tested in two separate conditions. Second, children’s use of ...
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(2021-02-08)Department: PsychologyChildren encounter novel words and referents across variable contexts that are defined by a great deal of perceptual chaos. Context variability may affect word learning, making it more difficult for children to link a label ...
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(Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020-01-14)Word learning requires learners to bind together arbitrarily-related phonological, visual, and conceptual information. Prior work suggests that this binding can be robustly achieved via incidental cross-situational statistical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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(2022-03-02)Department: PsychologyOne way that children actively gain access to new information is through asking (many) questions; a crucial question is whether this information-seeking helps children encode, store, and remember novel word meanings. This ...
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(2015-07-27)Department: PsychologyProviding vocabulary instruction during book reading is an effective way to support word learning for preschool-aged children. We test the placement of such instruction to provide insight into the cognitive abilities that ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: PsychologyBy the time children reach the preschool years, they have become skilled in two social abilities: 1) dividing their world into social groups and evaluating people based on group dimensions; and 2) learning from social ...