Social and Discourse Contributions to the Determination of Reference in Cross-Situational Word Learning
How do children infer the meanings of their first words? Even in infant-directed speech, object nouns are often used in complex contexts with many possible referents and in sentences with many other words. Previous work has argued that children can learn word meanings via cross-situational observati...
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Taylor & Francis
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92874 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035 |