Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Subject "Word learning; Gricean maxims; information sources"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Word learning may be best characterized by the ability to recruit information from social others. One question, then, is how children decide to learn words from one person versus another. The present study investigates the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)The present study investigates 4-year-old children’s ability to use speakers’ pragmatic competence as an indicator of whom to learn from. In this study, pragmatic competence is measured as the speaker’s ability to adhere ...