Cross-situational statistical word learning in young children

SH Suanda, N Mugwanya, LL Namy - Journal of experimental child …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent empirical work has highlighted the potential role of cross-situational statistical word
learning in children's early vocabulary development. In the current study, we tested 5-to 7 …

Statistics learned are statistics forgotten: Children's retention and retrieval of cross-situational word learning.

HA Vlach, CA DeBrock - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Children are able to resolve the referential ambiguity of learning new words by tracking co-
occurrence probabilities across moments in time, a behavior termed cross-situational word …

Remember dax? Relations between children's cross-situational word learning, memory, and language abilities

HA Vlach, CA DeBrock - Journal of memory and language, 2017 - Elsevier
Learning new words is a difficult task. Children are able to resolve the ambiguity of the task
and map words to referents by tracking co-occurrence probabilities across multiple moments …

Cross-situational and ostensive word learning in children with and without autism spectrum disorder

CE Venker - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerous experimental studies have shown that infants and children can discover word
meanings by using co-occurrences between labels and objects across individually …

What have we learned from 15 years of research on cross-situational word learning? A focused review

TC Roembke, ME Simonetti, I Koch… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In 2007 and 2008, Yu and Smith published their seminal studies on cross-situational word
learning (CSWL) in adults and infants, showing that word-object-mappings can be acquired …

The unrealized promise of infant statistical word–referent learning

LB Smith, SH Suanda, C Yu - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Recent theory and experiments offer a new solution regarding how infant learners may
break into word learning by using cross-situational statistics to find the underlying word …

Cross-situational statistical learning in children with developmental language disorder

N Ahufinger, E Guerra, L Ferinu, L Andreu… - Language, Cognition …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) need more exposures
to learn new words in an unambiguous context compared to children with typical …

Memory constraints on infants' cross-situational statistical learning

HA Vlach, SP Johnson - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Infants are able to map linguistic labels to referents in the world by tracking co-occurrence
probabilities across learning events, a behavior often termed cross-situational statistical …

Statistical word learning at scale: The baby's view is better

D Yurovsky, LB Smith, C Yu - Developmental science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A key question in early word learning is how children cope with the uncertainty in natural
naming events. One potential mechanism for uncertainty reduction is cross‐situational word …

Developmental changes in cross‐situational word learning: The inverse effect of initial accuracy

SA Fitneva, MH Christiansen - Cognitive Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Intuitively, the accuracy of initial word‐referent mappings should be positively correlated with
the outcome of learning. Yet recent evidence suggests an inverse effect of initial accuracy in …