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 …

Unraveling the complex interplay between statistical learning and working memory in Chinese children with and without dyslexia across different ages

M Zhou, P Zhang, C Mimeau, SX Tong - Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The relation between statistical learning and working memory in children with
developmental dyslexia (DD) remains unclear. This study employed a distributional and a …

The role of statistical learning and verbal short-term memory in impaired and typical lexical development

F Kemény, Á Lukács - Frontiers in Communication, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: Studies on the interface between statistical learning and language are dominated
by its role in word segmentation and association with grammar skills, while research on its …

跨情境词汇学习的偏态学习优势效应

石宇婧, 黄艳利, 谢久书, 刘书云 - 心理科学, 2024 - psysci.org
词频分布对跨情境词汇学习至关重要. 然而, 以往研究主要考察了基于均匀分布的跨情境词汇
学习, 相对忽视了真实情境中基于Zipfian 分布等偏态分布的跨情境词汇学习 …

Resolving Referential Ambiguity for Nouns and Verbs Across Situations by Foreign Language Learners 外語學習者如何運用跨情境訊息解決名詞與動詞的指意模糊問題

C Hu - English Teaching & Learning, 2022 - europepmc.org
The study examined the process used by foreign language learners in resolving referential
ambiguity across situations. Two hundred learners of English as a foreign language took two …

The Skewed Learning Advantage Effect of Cross-Situational Word Learning

S Yujing, H Yanli, X Jiushu, L Shuyun - Journal of Psychological Science, 2024 - psysci.org
Word frequency distribution is important for cross-situational word learning. Previous studies
mainly investigated cross-situational word learning based on the uniform distribution …

[PDF][PDF] Probing the role of multilingualism and working memory in cross-situational word learning

Y Li, VL Benitez - 2024 - osf.io
Cross-situational word learning (CSWL), the ability to resolve word-referent ambiguity
across encounters, is a powerful mechanism found in infants, children, and adults. Yet, we …

Resolving Referential Ambiguity for Nouns and Verbs Across Situations by Foreign Language Learners

CF Hu - English Teaching & Learning, 2024 - Springer
The study examined the process used by foreign language learners in resolving referential
ambiguity across situations. Two hundred learners of English as a foreign language took two …

Is adults' ability to interpret iconicity shared between the spoken and gestural modalities?

M Li, S Aussems, S Kita - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Iconicity (the resemblance between form and meaning) exists in various modes of
communication. This study investigated whether adults interpret iconicity in speech and …

The effect of initial accuracy on the learning and retention of novel words

A Kuznia, E Conwell - 2023 - osf.io
During word learning, incorrect guesses about meaning are inevitable. Prior research on the
effects of errors on word learning and retention has had mixed results, with some work …