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- Title
Questions Can Answer Questions About Mechanisms of Preschoolers' Selective Word Learning.
- Authors
Luchkina, Elena; Morgan, James L.; Williams, Deijah J.; Sobel, David M.
- Abstract
This study examined how inferences about epistemic competence and generalized labeling errors influence children's selective word learning. Three- to 4-year-olds (N = 128) learned words from informants who asked questions about objects, mentioning either correct or incorrect labels. Such questions do not convey stark differences in informants' epistemic competence. Inaccurate labels, however, generate error signals that can lead to weaker encoding of novel information. Preschoolers retained novel labels from both informants but were slower to respond in the Inaccurate Labeler condition. When the test procedure was not sensitive to the strength of information encoding, children performed above chance in both conditions and their response times did not differ. These results suggest that epistemic-level inferences and error generalizations influence preschoolers' selective word learning concurrently.
- Subjects
EARLY childhood vocabulary education; PRESCHOOL children; INFERENCE (Logic); LANGUAGE arts; RESEARCH; WORD recognition; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; EVALUATION research; COMPARATIVE studies; DECISION making; RESEARCH funding
- Publication
Child Development, 2020, Vol 91, Issue 5, pe1119
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.13395