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Direct linkMather, Emily; Plunkett, Kim – Cognitive Science, 2012
What mechanism implements the mutual exclusivity bias to map novel labels to objects without names? Prominent theoretical accounts of mutual exclusivity (e.g., Markman, 1989, 1990) propose that infants are guided by their knowledge of object names. However, the mutual exclusivity constraint could be implemented via monitoring of object novelty…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers, Bias
