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Direct linkLuchkina, Elena; Morgan, James L.; Williams, Deijah J.; Sobel, David M. – Child Development, 2020
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'…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Error Patterns
