TY - JOUR
T1 - The principles of conventionality and contrast in word learning
T2 - An empirical examination
AU - Diesendruck, Gil
PY - 2005/5
Y1 - 2005/5
N2 - In Study 1, 4-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when exposed to a common or a proper noun in a puppet's presence or to a common noun in a puppet's absence, but not when exposed to a proper noun in a puppet's absence. In Study 2, 3-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when the requester for the referent of a second label in a different language was bilingual and present during naming, but not when the speaker was bilingual but absent or monolingual. Study 3 followed up on the results of the first 2 studies. When children could assume that the puppet knew the name the experimenter used, they inferred that the puppet's use of a different name implied a different referential intent.
AB - In Study 1, 4-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when exposed to a common or a proper noun in a puppet's presence or to a common noun in a puppet's absence, but not when exposed to a proper noun in a puppet's absence. In Study 2, 3-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when the requester for the referent of a second label in a different language was bilingual and present during naming, but not when the speaker was bilingual but absent or monolingual. Study 3 followed up on the results of the first 2 studies. When children could assume that the puppet knew the name the experimenter used, they inferred that the puppet's use of a different name implied a different referential intent.
KW - Disambiguation
KW - Pragmatics
KW - Speakers' intent
KW - Word learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=20444495338&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/0012-1649.41.3.451
DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.41.3.451
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C2 - 15910154
AN - SCOPUS:20444495338
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 41
SP - 451
EP - 463
JO - Developmental Psychology
JF - Developmental Psychology
IS - 3
ER -