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Direct linkDautriche, Isabelle; Chemla, Emmanuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Upon hearing a novel word, language learners must identify its correct meaning from a diverse set of situationally relevant options. Such referential ambiguity could be reduced through "repetitive" exposure to the novel word across diverging learning situations, a learning mechanism referred to as "cross-situational learning."…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Ambiguity (Context), Ambiguity (Semantics)
