This paper reports on a research study intended to explore the organization of
preintermediate EFL learners' mental lexicon through word associations in a depth of word …

A major challenge in second language acquisition is to build up new vocabulary. How is it
possible to identify the meaning of a new word among several possible referents? Adult …

Word learning is a “chicken and egg” problem. If a child could understand speakers'
utterances, it would be easy to learn the meanings of individual words, and once a child …

How do learners gather new information during word learning? One possibility is that
learners selectively sample items that help them reduce uncertainty about new word …

ABSTRACT A child word-learning experiment is reported that examines 2-and 3-year-olds'
ability to learn the meanings of novel words across multiple, referentially ambiguous, word …

Embodied models of language comprehension are based on the assumption that words
become associated with sensorimotor experiences during initial word learning. To test this …

What kind of memory representations do word learners use when they learn the meaning of
words cross-situationally? This study leverages the measure of the relationship between …

Previous research on cross‐situational word learning has demonstrated that learners are
able to reduce ambiguity in mapping words to referents by tracking co‐occurrence …

There are an infinite number of possible word-to-word pairings in naturalistic learning
environments. Previous proposals to solve this mapping problem have focused on linguistic …

It has been suggested that children learn the meanings of words by observing the
regularities across different situations in which a word is used. However, experimental …