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Homophone acquisition across semantic categories based on limited exposure ...
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Our experiment tests whether category-crossing is enough to induce differences in word-learning behavior based on a very small number of exposures. It is motivated by findings in homophone acquisition, showing that children struggle to learn to use a second meaning for a known label unless it crosses a semantic category (e.g., animate vs. inanimate: learning “dog” as a label for a tool is easier than for another animal) or grammatical category (e.g., noun vs. verb: learning “dog” as a novel verb is easier than learning it as a noun). However, these experiments used “massed” approaches which do not provide insight into the exposure-by-exposure change in knowledge through the process of learning such words. Here, we examine exposure-by-exposure homophone learning. While children might retain all possible referents across exposures, there is growing evidence that they are not capable of storing and tracking such cumulative information. Instead, one recent model (and its variants) argue that children store a ...
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Developmental Psychology; First and Second Language Acquisition; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/sk3wp
https://osf.io/sk3wp/
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Linguistic and non-linguistic cues to acquiring the strong distributivity of each
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5236 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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