Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics Export

@article{citeulike:5784913, abstract = {First word learning should be difficult because any pairing of a word and scene presents the learner with an infinite number of possible referents. Accordingly, theorists of children's rapid word learning have sought constraints on word-referent mappings. These constraints are thought to work by enabling learners to resolve the ambiguity inherent in any labeled scene to determine the speaker's intended referent at that moment. The present study shows that 12- and 14-month-old infants can resolve the uncertainty problem in another way, not by unambiguously deciding the referent in a single word-scene pairing, but by rapidly evaluating the statistical evidence across many individually ambiguous words and scenes.}, author = {Smith, L. and Yu, C.}, citeulike-article-id = {5784913}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.010}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010027707001795}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.010}, issn = {00100277}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {infant, statistical-learning, word-learning}, month = {March}, number = {3}, pages = {1558--1568}, posted-at = {2009-09-15 02:38:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.010}, volume = {106}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5784913 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5784913 N2 - First word learning should be difficult because any pairing of a word and scene presents the learner with an infinite number of possible referents. Accordingly, theorists of children’s rapid word learning have sought constraints on word-referent mappings. These constraints are thought to work by enabling learners to resolve the ambiguity inherent in any labeled scene to determine the speaker’s intended referent at that moment. The present study shows that 12- and 14-month-old infants can resolve the uncertainty problem in another way, not by unambiguously deciding the referent in a single word-scene pairing, but by rapidly evaluating the statistical evidence across many individually ambiguous words and scenes. IS - 3 JF - Cognition SN - 00100277 EP - 1568 TI - Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics VL - 106 SP - 1558 KW - infant KW - statistical-learning KW - word-learning AU - Smith, L AU - Yu, C PY - 2008/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.010 ER -