Representing objects in terms of their kinds enables inferences based on the long-term
knowledge made available through kind concepts. For example, children readily use lexical …

Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17‐month‐old infants, but not 14‐or 16‐month‐olds, use
a strategy known as mutual exclusivity (ME) to identify the meanings of new words. When 17 …

Infants are precocious word learners, and seem to possess systematic expectations about
how words refer to object kinds. For example, while monolingual infants show a one‐to‐one …

In their first years, infants acquire an incredible amount of information regarding the objects
present in their environment. While often it is not clear what specific information should be …

Several recent studies have shown that 14-month-old infants have difficulty learning to
associate two phonetically similar new words to two different objects in the Switch task …

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 …

When preschool-aged children are presented with two objects, one familiar and one
unfamiliar, and asked for the referent of a novel word, they will consistently map the novel …

What mechanism implements the mutual exclusivity bias to map novel labels to objects
without names? Prominent theoretical accounts of mutual exclusivity (eg, Markman, 1989 …

During the second year of life, infants develop a preference to attach novel labels to novel
objects. This behavior is commonly known as “mutual exclusivity”(Markman, 1989). In an …

Mutual exclusivity is the assumption that each object has only one category label. Prior
research suggests that bilingual infants, unlike monolingual infants, fail to adhere to this …