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Direct linkWeatherhead, Drew; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Science, 2022
A growing body of work suggests that speaker-race influences how infants and toddlers interpret the meanings of words. In two experiments, we explored the role of speaker-race on whether newly learned word-object pairs are generalized to new speakers. Seventy-two 20-month-olds were taught two word-object pairs from a familiar race speaker, and two…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Familiarity, Race, Generalization
