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Direct linkKline, Melissa; Snedeker, Jesse; Schulz, Laura – Language Learning and Development, 2017
How do children map linguistic representations onto the conceptual structures that they encode? In the present studies, we provided 3-4-year-old children with minimal-pair scene contrasts in order to determine the effect of particular event properties on novel verb learning. Specifically, we tested whether spatiotemporal cues to causation also…
Descriptors: Cues, Children, Verbs, Spatial Ability
Srinivasan, Mahesh; Snedeker, Jesse – Language Learning and Development, 2014
How do children resolve the problem of indeterminacy when learning a new word? By one account, children adopt a "taxonomic assumption" and expect the word to denote only members of a particular taxonomic category. According to one version of this constraint, young children should represent polysemous words that label multiple kinds--for…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Child Language
