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Direct linkDautriche, Isabelle; Chemla, Emmanuel; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning and Development, 2016
How do children infer the meaning of a word? Current accounts of word learning assume that children expect a word to map onto exactly one concept whose members form a coherent category. If this assumption was strictly true, children should infer that a homophone, such as "bat," refers to a single superordinate category that encompasses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Adults, Language Processing
