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Direct linkMcMurray, Bob; Horst, Jessica S.; Samuelson, Larissa K. – Psychological Review, 2012
Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations, a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve this, researchers have posited constraints, and inference strategies, but assume that determining the referent of a novel word is isomorphic to learning. We…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Interaction
