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Cross-Situational Statistics Present in an Early Language Learning Context: Evidence from Naturalistic Parent-Child Interactions
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Ellis S. Cain; Rachel A. Ryskin; Chen Yu – Cognitive Science, 2025
According to the cross-situational learning account, infants aggregate statistical information from multiple parent naming events to resolve ambiguous word-referent mappings within individual naming events. While previous experimental studies have shown that infant and adult learners can build correct mappings based on statistical regularities…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Infants, Inferences