REBECCA NAPPA
Biographic Data
| ID | 9285897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | REBECCA NAPPA |
| GIVEN NAMES | REBECCA |
| FAMILY NAME | NAPPA |
| SIGNATURE | NAPPA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Development of the first-mention bias
In many contexts, pronouns are interpreted as referring to the character mentioned first in the previous sentence, an effect called the ‘first-mention bias’. While adults can rapidly use the first-mention bias to guide pronoun interpretation, it is unclear when this bias emerges during development. Curiously, experiments with children between two and three years old show successful use of order of mention, while experiments with older children (f…
On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation
Hard Words
How do children acquire the meaning of words? And why are words such as know harder for learners to acquire than words such as dog or jump? We suggest that the chief limiting factor in acquiring the vocabulary of natural languages consists not in overcoming conceptual difficulties with abstract word meanings but rather in mapping these meanings onto their corresponding lexical forms. This opening premise of our position, while controversial, is s…
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Hard Words
How do children acquire the meaning of words? And why are words such as know harder for learners to acquire than words such as dog or jump? We suggest that the chief limiting factor in acquiring the vocabulary of natural languages consists not in overcoming conceptual difficulties with abstract word meanings but rather in mapping these meanings onto their corresponding lexical forms. This opening premise of our position, while controversial, is s…
On the give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation
Development of the first-mention bias
In many contexts, pronouns are interpreted as referring to the character mentioned first in the previous sentence, an effect called the ‘first-mention bias’. While adults can rapidly use the first-mention bias to guide pronoun interpretation, it is unclear when this bias emerges during development. Curiously, experiments with children between two and three years old show successful use of order of mention, while experiments with older children (f…
Linguistics (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Noun (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)