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Five-Year-Olds’ and Adults’ Use of Paralinguistic Cues to Overcome Referential Uncertainty
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14- to 16-Month-Olds Attend to Distinct Labels in an Inductive Reasoning Task
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Generics license 30-month-olds’ inferences about the atypical properties of novel kinds
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24-Month-Olds’ Selective Learning Is Not an All-or-None Phenomenon
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Evidence that children maintain some memories of labels that are unlikely to be shared by the broader linguistic community suggests that children’s selective learning is not an all-or-none phenomenon. Across three experiments, we examine the contexts in which 24-month-olds show selective learning and whether they adjust their selective learning if provided with cues of in-context relevance. In each experiment, toddlers were first familiarized with a source who acted on familiar objects in either typical or atypical ways (e.g., used a car to mimic driving or hop like a rabbit) or labeled familiar objects incorrectly (e.g., called a spoon a “brush”). The source then labeled unfamiliar objects using either a novel word (e.g., fep; Experiment 1) or sound (e.g., ring; Experiments 2 and 3). Results indicated that toddlers learnt words from the typical source but not from the atypical or inaccurate source. In contrast, toddlers extended sound labels only when a source who had previously acted atypically provided the sound labels. Thus, toddlers, like preschoolers, avoid forming semantic representations of new object labels that are unlikely to be relevant in the broader community, but will form event-based memories of such labels if they have reason to suspect such labels will have in-context relevance.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476613/ https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131215 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26098631
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Learning from picture books: Infants’ use of naming information
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Distinct Labels Attenuate 15-Month-Olds’ Attention to Shape in an Inductive Inference Task
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Children’s Sensitivity to the Knowledge Expressed in Pedagogical and Non-Pedagogical Contexts
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Two-year-olds use the generic/non-generic distinction to guide their inferences about novel kinds
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