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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 When children are learning a novel object label, they tend to exclude as possible referents familiar objects for which they already have a name. In the current study, we wanted to know if children would behave in this same way regardless of how well they
Susanne eGrassmann +4 more
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Languages, 2022 Dynamic assessment (DA), which evaluates the learning process rather than static knowledge, has been found to be effective in diagnosing developmental language disorder (DLD) in English-speaking bilingual children.
Mélodie Matrat +2 more
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Number words, quantifiers, and principles of word learning
WIREs Cognitive Science, 2011 AbstractHow do children learn the meanings of words like many and five? Although much is known about the mechanisms that underlie children's acquisition of nouns and verbs, considerably less is understood of how children begin to learn the meanings of words that refer to sets (e.g., number words and quantifiers).
Jessica, Sullivan, David, Barner
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The shape of the vocabulary predicts the shape of the bias
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 Children acquire attentional biases that help them generalize novel words to novel objects. Researchers have proposed that these biases arise from regularities in the early noun vocabulary children learn and suggest that the specifics of the biases ...
Lynn K Perry, Larissa K Samuelson
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Attention and Word Learning in Autistic, Language Delayed and Typically Developing Children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Previous work has demonstrated that patterns of social attention hold predictive value for language development in typically developing infants. The goal of this research was to explore how patterns of attention in autistic, language delayed, and ...
Elena eTenenbaum +5 more
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Attentional actions – an ecological-enactive account of utterances of concrete words
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2018 This paper proposes an ecological-enactive account of utterances of concrete words - words used to indicate observable situations, events, objects, or characteristics. Building on the education of attention model of learning, utterances of concrete words
Van Den Herik Jasper C.
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Words and arbitrary actions in early object categorization: weak evidence for a word advantage
Royal Society Open ScienceBoth words and gestures have been shown to influence object categorization, often even overriding perceptual similarities to cue category membership. However, gestures are often meaningful to infants while words are arbitrarily related to an object they ...
Ricarda Bothe +3 more
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Whither developmental psycholinguistics?
Language Development ResearchLarge Language Models (LLMs; e.g., GPT-n) have attracted the attention of psycholinguists who see a potential for solutions to ancient problems in them.
Victor Gomes
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Children’s memories for the link between a newly trained word and its referent have been the focus of extensive past research. However, memory for the word form itself is rarely assessed among preschool-age children.
Katherine R. Gordon, Karla K. McGregor
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Context and repetition in word learning [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Young children learn words from a variety of situations, including shared storybook reading. A recent study by Horst et al. (2011a) demonstrates that children learned more new words during shared storybook reading if they were read the same stories repeatedly than if they were read different stories that had the same number of target words. The current
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