Children's referent selection and word learning: insights from a developmental robotic system

KE Twomey, AF Morse, A Cangelosi… - Interaction Studies, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
It is well-established that toddlers can correctly select a novel referent from an ambiguous
array in response to a novel label. There is also a growing consensus that robust word …

[PDF][PDF] Simulating Bilingual Word Learning: Monolingual and Bilingual Adults' Use of Cross-Situational Statistics.

KCJ Chan, P Monaghan - CogSci, 2019 - core.ac.uk
Children learning language in multilingual settings have to learn that objects take different
labels within each different language to which they are exposed. Previous research has …

Context influences conscious appraisal of cross situational statistical learning

TJ Poepsel, DJ Weiss - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Previous research in cross-situational statistical learning has established that people can
track statistical information across streams in order to map nonce words to their referent …

Where words get their meaning

M Bolognesi - 2020 - torrossa.com
Words have an immense power and much of this power lies under the radar of our
conscious detection. A single word can deeply influence our behavior, without us being …

Simultaneous speech segmentation and cross-situational statistical learning in monolinguals, bilinguals, and multilinguals

Y Tachakourt - Journal of Applied Language and Culture Studies, 2023 - revues.imist.ma
Statistical learning (SL) is a mechanism that learners use to segment words from continuous
speech and map them to their correct referents through the computation of co-occurrence …

Cross‐situational learning from ambiguous egocentric input is a continuous process: Evidence using the human simulation paradigm

Y Zhang, D Yurovsky, C Yu - Cognitive science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent laboratory experiments have shown that both infant and adult learners can acquire
word‐referent mappings using cross‐situational statistics. The vast majority of the work on …

Cross-situational statistical learning in younger and older adults

F Bulgarelli, DJ Weiss, NA Dennis - Aging, Neuropsychology, and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Research investigating statistical learning, the process of tracking regularities in the
environment, in older adults has been limited; with existing studies suggesting there are age …

Mechanisms of cross-situational learning: Behavioral and computational evidence

Y Zhang, C Chen, C Yu - Advances in child development and behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Word learning happens in everyday contexts with many words and many potential referents
for those words in view at the same time. It is challenging for young learners to find the …

Improvements of statistical learning skills allow older children to go beyond single-hypothesis testing when learning words

MY Sia, J Mayor - Journal of child language, 2022 - cambridge.org
Children learn words in ambiguous situations, where multiple objects can potentially be
referents for a new word. Yet, researchers debate whether children maintain a single word …

[HTML][HTML] Combining statistics: the role of phonotactics on cross-situational word learning

RD Ben, DH Souza, JF Hay - Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract Language learners can rely on phonological and semantic information to learn
novel words. Using a cross-situational word learning paradigm, we explored the role of …