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cross-situational word learning: a standalone construct

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Child language development

learning which word goes with which referent by tracking co-occurrences across many ambiguous situations.

In child language development, cross-situational word learning refers to learning which word goes with which referent by tracking co-occurrences across many ambiguous situations. This meaning comes from Smith (2008) in Cognition.[1]

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cognition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs development1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct learning6 fields · 14 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Smith, L., & Yu, C. (2008). Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics. Cognition, 106(3), 1558-1568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.010

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