Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning.

ABSTRACT: Children's everyday learning environment is semantically structured. For example, semantically related things (e.g., fork and spoon) usually co-occur in the same contexts. The current study examines the effects of semantically structured contexts on preschool-age children's (N = 65, 33 girls, age range: 52-68 months) use of statistical information to learn novel word-object mappings. Children were assigned into one of two conditions, in which objects from the same semantic category repeatedly co-occurred in the same trials (Same-category condition) or objects from different categories repeatedly co-occurred in the same trials (Different-categories condition). Children's word learning performance in the two conditions were comparable. However, their errors at test suggested that information

SUBMITTER: Chen CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9086139 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature