[HTML][HTML] The role of developmental change and linguistic experience in the mutual exclusivity effect

M Lewis, V Cristiano, BM Lake, T Kwan, MC Frank - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Given a novel word and a familiar and a novel referent, children have a bias to assume the
novel word refers to the novel referent. This bias–often referred to as “Mutual …

The development of fast‐mapping and novel word retention strategies in monolingual and bilingual infants

M Kalashnikova, P Escudero, E Kidd - Developmental science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The effects of linguistic experience on the flexible use of mutual exclusivity in word learning

M Kalashnikova, K Mattock… - … : Language and Cognition, 2015 - cambridge.org
Mutual Exclusivity (ME) is a prominent constraint in language acquisition, which guides
children to establish one-to-one mappings between words and referents. But how does …

Is tool modification more difficult than innovation?

N Cutting, IA Apperly, J Chappell, SR Beck - Cognitive Development, 2019 - Elsevier
Children easily learn about tools from others, but have difficulty innovating tools
independently. The current studies combine these research areas and explore the social …

Neurophysiological correlates of fast mapping of novel words in the adult brain

MJ Vasilyeva, VM Knyazeva… - Frontiers in Human …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Word acquisition could be mediated by the neurocognitive mechanism known as fast
mapping (FM). It refers to a process of incidental exclusion-based learning and is believed to …

Children's level of word knowledge predicts their exclusion of familiar objects as referents of novel words

S Grassmann, C Schulze, M Tomasello - Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
When children are learning a novel object label, they tend to exclude as possible referents
familiar objects for which they already have a name. In the current study, we wanted to know …

Fast mapping word meanings across trials: Young children forget all but their first guess

A Aravind, J de Villiers, A Pace, H Valentine… - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Do children learn a new word by tracking co-occurrences between words and referents
across multiple instances (“cross-situational learning” models), or is word-learning a “one …

Understanding preschoolers' word learning success in different scenarios: disambiguation meets statistical learning and eBook reading

G Pino Escobar, A Tuninetti, M Antoniou… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Children's ability to learn new words during their preschool years is crucial for further
academic success. Previous research suggests that children rely on different learning …

Heritage-bilingualism and educational achievement among second-generation immigrants: Are all school subjects equal?

S Chachashvili-Bolotin, H Kreiner - Learning and Individual Differences, 2022 - Elsevier
Many second-generation immigrant (SGI) students are heritage-bilinguals whose mother
tongue is not their school's instructional language. Adopting sociological and …

Mutual exclusivity develops as a consequence of abstract rather than particular vocabulary knowledge

M Kalashnikova, K Mattock, P Monaghan - First Language, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Mutual exclusivity (ME) refers to the assumption that there are one-to-one relations between
linguistic forms and their meanings. It is used as a word-learning strategy whereby children …