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Alvin W. M. Tan; Virginia A. Marchman; Michael C. Frank – Developmental Science, 2024
Bilingual environments present an important context for word learning. One feature of bilingual environments is the existence of translation equivalents (TEs)--words in different languages that share similar meanings. Documenting TE learning over development may give us insight into the mechanisms underlying word learning in young bilingual…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bilingual Education, Translation, Vocabulary Development
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Kalish, Charles W.; Zhu, XiaoJin; Rogers, Timothy T. – Developmental Science, 2015
Psychological intuitions about natural category structure do not always correspond to the true structure of the world. The current study explores young children's responses to conflict between intuitive structure and authoritative feedback using a semi-supervised learning (Zhu et al., 2007) paradigm. In three experiments, 160 children between the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Child Development, Young Children, Intuition