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The Principle of Mutual Exclusivity in Word Learning: To Honor or Not to Honor?
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Au, Terry Kit-fong; Glusman, Mariana – Child Development, 1990
Examined the possibility that knowledge about hierarchical organization of categories and cross-language equivalents for object labels can help children limit use of the assumption that nouns pick out mutually exclusive object categories. Findings suggest that even preschoolers use knowledge about language and categorization to fine tune the…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Classification, Generalization