Learning How to Learn Words

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Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, methodology): “For example, children’s own word productions have been used as indirect evidence regarding what words children hear (Smith 2000), but in future research it will be 132 Gelman A nn u.”
The social-pragmatic theory of word learning. (2000, background): “Smith (2000) has argued that the essence of word learning is associating sounds with salient aspects of perceptual experience.”
A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning (2010, background): “Some psychologists consider word learning, especially at early stages, to be based on simple associative mechanisms (Smith, 2000): A child hears a word, for example dog, while chasing a dog.”
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Research Article Using Speakers ’ Referential Intentions to Model Early Cross-Situational Word Learning (unknown): “…accounts of word learning take advantage of the fact that words often refer to the immediate environment of the speaker, which allows learners to build a lexicon based on consistent associations between words and their referents (Locke, 1690/1964; Siskind, 1996; Smith, 2000; Yu & Smith, 2007).”