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When Slowing down Processing Helps Learning: Lexico-Semantic Structure Supports Retention, but Interferes with Disambiguation of Novel Object-Label Mappings
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Borovsky, Arielle – Developmental Science, 2020
This project explores how children disambiguate and retain novel object-label mappings in the face of semantic similarity. Burgeoning evidence suggests that semantic structure in the developing lexicon promotes word learning in ostensive contexts, whereas other findings indicate that semantic similarity interferes with and temporarily slows…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Retention (Psychology), Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Semantics