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| Title: | Preschoolers' word mapping: The interplay between labelling context and specificity of speaker information |
| Author: | Elizabeth S. Nilsen |
| Institution: | University of Waterloo |
| Author: | Susan A. Graham |
| Institution: | University of Calgary |
| Author: | Tamara Pettigrew |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Linguistic Field: | Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | We assessed the effect of specificity of speaker information about an object on three-year-olds' word mappings. When children heard a novel label followed by specific information about an object at exposure, children subsequently mapped the label to that object at test. When children heard only specific information about an object at exposure, they inferred that the label applied to a different object at test. Finally, non-specific information did not assist children in mapping a word to an object. Thus, children use speaker information as a word-mapping cue but this information is interpreted differently depending on how the discourse is initiated. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 36, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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