Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic
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Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic.
How infants learn new words is a fundamental puzzle in language acquisition. To guide their word learning, infants exploit systematic word-learning heuristics that allow them to link new words to likely referents. By 17 months, infants show a tendency to associate a novel noun with a novel object rather than a familiar one, a heuristic known as disambiguation. Yet, the developmental origins of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1363-755X,1467-7687
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00902.x