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mutual exclusivity bias: a standalone construct

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Child language development

children's assumption that each object has only one label, which leads them to map a new word onto an unnamed object.

In child language development, mutual exclusivity bias refers to children's assumption that each object has only one label, which leads them to map a new word onto an unnamed object. This meaning comes from Markman (1988) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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bias6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs development1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct object4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Markman, E. M., & Wachtel, G. F. (1988). Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words. Cognitive Psychology, 20(2), 121-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(88)90017-5

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