TY - GEN
T1 - Discourse continuity promotes children's learning of new objects labels
AU - Schwab, Jessica F.
AU - Lew-Williams, Casey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The present study examined the influence of continuity of reference (i.e., discourse continuity) on children's learning of new objects labels. Four-year-old children were taught three new label/objects pairs, where the speaker's references to objects were either continuous (i.e., clusters of utterances referred to the same object) or discontinuous (i.e., no two sequential sentences referred to the same object). In two experiments, children learned new word/object mappings more successfully when object labels were accompanied by continuous references to the same object. This research reveals how discourse cues support children's encoding of new words, and in doing so, advances our understanding of the specific features of parents' language input that facilitate children's language development.
AB - The present study examined the influence of continuity of reference (i.e., discourse continuity) on children's learning of new objects labels. Four-year-old children were taught three new label/objects pairs, where the speaker's references to objects were either continuous (i.e., clusters of utterances referred to the same object) or discontinuous (i.e., no two sequential sentences referred to the same object). In two experiments, children learned new word/object mappings more successfully when object labels were accompanied by continuous references to the same object. This research reveals how discourse cues support children's encoding of new words, and in doing so, advances our understanding of the specific features of parents' language input that facilitate children's language development.
KW - child-directed speech
KW - discourse continuity
KW - word learning
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition
SP - 3101
EP - 3106
BT - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017
Y2 - 26 July 2017 through 29 July 2017
ER -