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The Development of Fast-Mapping and Novel Word Retention Strategies in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants
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Kalashnikova, Marina; Escudero, Paola; Kidd, Evan – Developmental Science, 2018
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infants to map novel words to novel referents. This study assessed the emergence and use of ME to both disambiguate and retain the meanings of novel words across development in 18-month-old monolingual and bilingual children (Experiment 1; N = 58), and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Monolingualism