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Children Use Contrast, Multiple Familiarization Scenes, and Multiple Object Categories to Learn Verbs

Description:

Recent work exploring children's verb learning in the laboratory has generated some interesting contradictions. Some studies have found that children as old as 4 years old are unable to reliably map a novel verb to an action (e.g., Kersten & Smith, 2002; Imai, Haryu, & Okada, 2005), even though much...

Keyword:

cross-situational learning, contrast, verb learning, language acquisition, and early word learning

Subject:

Psychology

Creator:

Thomas B Piccin

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

05/25/2018

Date Modified:

05/25/2018

Date Created:

2007-05-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation