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Direct linkKalashnikova, Marina; Escudero, Paola; Kidd, Evan – Developmental Science, 2018
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infants to map novel words to novel referents. This study assessed the emergence and use of ME to both disambiguate and retain the meanings of novel words across development in 18-month-old monolingual and bilingual children (Experiment 1; N = 58), and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Monolingualism
Shayan, Shakila; Ozturk, Ozge; Bowerman, Melissa; Majid, Asifa – Developmental Science, 2014
Pitch is often described metaphorically: for example, Farsi and Turkish speakers use a "thickness" metaphor (low sounds are "thick" and high sounds are "thin"), while German and English speakers use a height metaphor ("low", "high"). This study examines how child and adult speakers of Farsi,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, German, Turkish
