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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Main Authors: McMurray, B. (Author), Roembke, T.C (Author), Wiggs, K.K (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academic Press Inc. 2018
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