Bruce Mannheim,Susan A Gelman,Carmen Escalante et al.
Bruce Mannheim et al.
Generic noun phrases (e.g., "Cats like to drink milk") are a primary means by which adults express generalizations to children, yet they pose a challenging induction puzzle for learners. Although prior research has established that English ...
Susan A Gelman,Peggy J Goetz,Barbara W Sarnecka et al.
Susan A Gelman et al.
Generic knowledge concerns kinds of things (e.g., birds fly; a chair is for sitting; gold is a metal). Past research demonstrated that children spontaneously develop generic knowledge by preschool age. The present study examines when and ho...
Jill P Morford,Martina L Carlson
Jill P Morford
Past research has established that delayed first language exposure is associated with comprehension difficulties in non-native signers of American Sign Language (ASL) relative to native signers. The goal of the current study was to investig...
Beyond Fast Mapping [0.03%]
快速映射之外
Susan Carey
Susan Carey
Since the seminal 1957 studies of word learning by Roger Brown, most experimental studies of lexical acquisition have concerned fast mapping: the process through which a new lexical entry is established, and through which representations of...
Alycia Cummings,Ayse Pinar Saygin,Elizabeth Bates et al.
Alycia Cummings et al.
To examine how young children recognize the association between two different types of meaningful sounds and their visual referents, we compared 15-, 20-, and 25-month-old infants' looking time responses to familiar naturalistic environment...
Susan A Gelman,Lakshmi Raman,Dedre Gentner
Susan A Gelman
What factors promote conceptual (deep) processing in young children? In this research we examine two factors that seem likely to invite a focus on important conceptual information. The first is comparison processing: comparisons (such as "c...
More than words: Adults learn probabilities over categories and relationships between them [0.03%]
不止是词语：成人学会类别概率及其关系
Carla L Hudson Kam
Carla L Hudson Kam
This study examines whether human learners can acquire statistics over abstract categories and their relationships to each other. Adult learners were exposed to miniature artificial languages containing variation in the ordering of the Subj...
Classifiers as Count Syntax: Individuation and Measurement in the Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese [0.03%]
量词法分类：以汉语普通话为例探讨个体化和计量在语言习得中的作用
Peggy Li,David Barner,Becky H Huang
Peggy Li
The distinction between mass nouns (e.g., butter) and count nouns (e.g., table) offers a test case for asking how the syntax and semantics of natural language are related, and how children exploit syntax-semantics mappings when acquiring la...
Some cross-linguistic evidence for modulation of implicational universals by language-specific frequency effects in phonological development [0.03%]
语际证据：语音频效调节蕴含普遍性规则的影响
Jan Edwards,Mary E Beckman
Jan Edwards
While broad-focus comparisons of consonant inventories across children acquiring different language can suggest that phonological development follows a universal sequence, finer-grained statistical comparisons can reveal systematic differen...
New Insights Into Old Puzzles From Infants' Categorical Discrimination of Soundless Phonetic Units [0.03%]
婴儿声音范畴区分能力的新见解：对无声语音单元的旧难题提供新思路
Stephanie A Baker,Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,Laura-Ann Petitto
Stephanie A Baker
For 4 decades, serious scientific debate has persisted as to whether infants' remarkable capacity to detect and categorize phonetic units is derived from language-specific mechanisms or whether this capacity develops out of general perceptu...