The concept of animacy versus the object bias principle in 18-month-olds' word learning
Researchers have postulated word-learning biases to explain infants' effortless acquisition of object words. One such bias, the whole object assumption, helps infants acquire new words by narrowing the referent of a novel label to an entire object, rather than to actions, spatial relations or p...
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/1146/1/MQ54276.pdf Katerelos, Marina <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Katerelos=3AMarina=3A=3A.html> (2000) The concept of animacy versus the object bias principle in 18-month-olds' word learning. Masters thesis, Concordia University. |