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Direct linkScofield, Jason; Behrend, Douglas A. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
When presented with a pair of objects, one familiar and one unfamiliar, and asked to select the referent of a novel word, children reliably demonstrate the disambiguation effect and select the unfamiliar object. The current study investigated two competing word learning accounts of this effect: a pragmatic account and a word learning principles…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Toddlers, Pragmatics, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedNaigles, Letitia – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Provides an experimental validation of Landau and Gleitman's (1985) syntactic bootstrapping procedure on how children may use syntactic information to learn new verbs. The children's choice of the correct referent for a given verb versus a nonsense verb in two syntactic structures is explained. (37 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Theories
