The effect of hearing similar-sounding words on young 2-year-olds' disambiguation of novel reference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9792117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William E Merriman (0000-0003-4019-5722, corresponding author), John M Marazita |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 973-984 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.31.6.973 |
| OpenAlex | W4233510355, W2040517396 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Young 2-year-olds' interpretation of a novel noun was influenced by preexposure to similar-sounding words. In Experiment 1, 16 children selected an unfamiliar rather than a familiar object as the noun's referent more often when they had just heard many words that sounded like it than when they had just heard many that did not. Exposure to repeated sounds was hypothesized to reduce the attentional resources needed to process a word made up ofthe sounds, permitting extra resources to be applied to the name mapping problem. In Experiments 2 and 3, exposure had a similar effect on children's mapping of a novel noun that sounded similar to the name of the familiar choice object (e.g., their mapping of wug onto a stethoscope rather than dog). Exposure was hypothesized to cause differences perceived within the set of words to be magnified and those perceived outside of it to be reduced
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Noun · Object (grammar · Perception · Referent · Set (abstract data type · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Multisensory perception and integration · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
Learning Words Over Time
Dense neighborhoods and mechanisms of learning
The influence of object pre-exposure on two-year-olds' disambiguation of novel labels
The influence of exposure to phonological neighbours on preschoolers' novel word production
Children with SLI exhibit delays resolving ambiguous reference
Mutual exclusivity develops as a consequence of abstract rather than particular vocabulary knowledge
Infants' disambiguation of novel object words
Two-year-olds' expectation that lexical gaps will be filled
Children’s disambiguation of novel words varies by the number and position of phonological contrasts
The pragmatics of discovery constrains children’s tendency to map novel labels onto novel objects
Extracting Phonological Patterns for L2 Word Learning
| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |