Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names.
Early object name learning is often conceptualized as a problem of mapping heard names to referents. However, infants do not hear object names as discrete events but rather in extended interactions organized around goal-directed actions on objects. The present study examined the statistical structur...
| Publicado en: | Language Acquisition Vol. 30; no. 3/4; pp. 211 - 230 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Dec2023
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