Infants’ learning of novel words in a stochastic environment
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9789554 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Athena Vouloumanos (New York University, autor de correspondencia), Janet F Werker (0000-0002-1168-9013, University of British Columbia) |
| Año | 2009 |
| Volumen | 45 |
| Número | 6 |
| Páginas | 1611-1617 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Editorial | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0016134 |
| PMID | 19899918 |
| OpenAlex | W2016812908 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 13 |
| Referencias citadas | 34 |
In everyday word learning words are only sometimes heard in the presence of their referent, making the acquisition of novel words a particularly challenging task. The current study investigated whether children (18-month-olds who are novice word learners) can track the statistics of co-occurrence between words and objects to learn novel mappings in a stochastic environment. Infants were briefly trained on novel word-novel object pairs with variable degrees of co-occurrence: Words were either paired reliably with 1 referent or stochastically paired with 2 different referents with varying probabilities. Infants were sensitive to the co-occurrence statistics between words and referents, tracking not just the strongest available contingency but also low-frequency information. The statistical strength of the word-referent mapping may also modulate real-time online lexical processing in infants. Infants are thus able to track stochastic relationships between words and referents in the process of learning novel words
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Object (grammar · Referent · Statistical Learning · Task (project management · Verbal learning · Word (group theory · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Intervalo de citas | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
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