The effects of shared storybook reading on word learning: A meta-analysis.

ZM Flack, AP Field, JS Horst - Developmental psychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Although an abundant literature documents preliterate children's word learning success from
shared storybook reading, a full synthesis of the factors which moderate these word learning …

The pervasive role of pragmatics in early language

M Bohn, MC Frank - Annual Review of Developmental …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Language is a fundamentally social endeavor. Pragmatics is the study of how speakers and
listeners use social reasoning to go beyond the literal meanings of words to interpret …

[图书][B] Explain me this: Creativity, competition, and the partial productivity of constructions

AE Goldberg - 2019 - books.google.com
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Building machines that learn and think like people

BM Lake, TD Ullman, JB Tenenbaum… - Behavioral and brain …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

The Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database: A collection of novel images for use in experimental research

JS Horst, MC Hout - Behavior research methods, 2016 - Springer
Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the
Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains 64 primary …

Word learning emerges from the interaction of online referent selection and slow associative learning.

B McMurray, JS Horst, LK Samuelson - Psychological review, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations,
a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve …

Fast mapping, slow learning: Disambiguation of novel word–object mappings in relation to vocabulary learning at 18, 24, and 30 months

RAH Bion, A Borovsky, A Fernald - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
When hearing a novel name, children tend to select a novel object rather than a familiar one,
a bias known as disambiguation. Using online processing measures with 18-, 24-, and 30 …

How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories

SA Gelman, SO Roberts - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture,
but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously …

Child language: Acquisition and development

M Saxton - 2017 - torrossa.com
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …