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A Changing Role for Transitional Probabilities in Word Learning during the Transition to Toddlerhood?
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Jill Lany; Ferhat Karaman; Jessica F. Hay – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' sensitivity to transitional probabilities (TPs) supports language development by facilitating mapping high-TP (HTP) words to meaning, at least up to 18 months of age. Here we tested whether this HTP advantage holds as lexical development progresses, and infants become better at forming word--referent mappings. Two groups of 24-month-olds…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers, Semantics