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Direct linkYu, Chen; Ballard, Dana H.; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Science, 2005
We examine the influence of inferring interlocutors' referential intentions from their body movements at the early stage of lexical acquisition. By testing human participants and comparing their performances in different learning conditions, we find that those embodied intentions facilitate both word discovery and word-meaning association. In…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Testing, Comparative Analysis, Learning Processes
