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Zettersten, Martin; Saffran, Jenny R. – Developmental Science, 2021
How do learners gather new information during word learning? One possibility is that learners selectively sample items that help them reduce uncertainty about new word meanings. In a series of cross-situational word learning tasks with adults and children, we manipulated the referential ambiguity of label-object pairs experienced during training…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Task Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Case Studies