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Woodard, Kristina; Gleitman, Lila R.; Trueswell, John C. – Language Learning and Development, 2016
A child word-learning experiment is reported that examines 2- and 3-year-olds' ability to learn the meanings of novel words across multiple, referentially ambiguous, word occurrences. Children were told they were going on an animal safari in which they would learn the names of unfamiliar animals. Critical trial sequences began with hearing a novel…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Animals, Toddlers