Attention, Grounding, and Word Acquisition

Mercredi 11 Juin 2014, 14:00 to 16:00
Invité: 
Eve Clark
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ODG, salle 126

To acquire new words, children need to be able to identify the intended referent on each occasion -- object, action, property, or relation in context. Adults and children coordinate in relying on joint attention, physical co-presence, and conversational co-presence to manage initial mappings of word forms.