Young children often make pragmatic assumptions when learning new words. For example,
they assume that a speaker who uses different words intends to refer to different things–the …

Children tend to select a novel object rather than a familiar object when asked to identify the
referent of a novel label. Current accounts of this so-called disambiguation effect do not …

Even one-year-olds show the so-called disambiguation effect, which is a tendency to select
a novel object rather than a familiar object as the referent of a novel label. The strength of …

When taught a label for an object, and later asked whether that object or a novel object is the
referent of a novel label, preschoolers favor the novel object. This article examines whether …