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Direct linkEmily Mather; Shane Lindsay – Infant and Child Development, 2025
There is widespread evidence that children display a mutual exclusivity response upon encountering new words. Children displaying this behaviour will select a novel, name-unknown object in response to a novel label, rather than a familiar, name-known object. The mutual exclusivity response has been viewed as a means of fast-mapping…
Descriptors: Children, Memory, Retention (Psychology), Vocabulary Development
