The role of linguistic biases in word learning

Children tend to look at name-unknownobjects when they hearnovel words, a behaviour that researchers have described through the Mutual Exclusivity (ME)constraint; that childrenstart to learn meanings of wordswith the assumption that each object has only one name. The application of the MEconstrainth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sia, Ming Yean
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55940/