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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Main Authors: Frank, Michael C., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Fernald, Anne
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92874
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035

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