Symbolic flexibility during unsupervised word learning in children and adults
Considerable debate in language acquisition concerns whether word learning is driven by domain-general (symbolically flexible) or domain-specific learning mechanisms. Prior work has shown that very young children can map objects to either words or nonlinguistic sounds, but by 20 months of age this a...
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Academic Press Inc.
2018
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