Journal article
Slowing Down Fast Mapping: Redefining the Dynamics of Word Learning
Child development perspectives, Vol.9(2), pp.74-78
06/2015
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12110
PMCID: PMC4764087
PMID: 26918026
Abstract
In this article, we review literature on word learning and propose a theoretical account of how lexical knowledge and word use emerge and develop over time. We contend that the developing lexical system is built on processes that support children’s in-the-moment word usage interacting with processes that create long-term learning. We argue for a new characterization of word learning in which simple mechanisms like association and competition, and the interaction between the two, guide children’s selection of referents and word use in the moment. This in turn strengthens and refines the network of relationships in the lexicon, improving referent selection and use in future encounters with words. By integrating in-the-moment word use with long-term learning through simple domain-general mechanisms, this account highlights the dynamic nature of word learning and creates a broader framework for understanding language and cognitive development more generally.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Slowing Down Fast Mapping: Redefining the Dynamics of Word Learning
- Creators
- Sarah C Kucker - The University of Texas at DallasBob McMurray - The University of Iowa, The Delta CenterLarissa K Samuelson - The University of Iowa, The Delta Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development perspectives, Vol.9(2), pp.74-78
- DOI
- 10.1111/cdep.12110
- PMID
- 26918026
- PMCID
- PMC4764087
- NLM abbreviation
- Child Dev Perspect
- ISSN
- 1750-8592
- eISSN
- 1750-8606
- Grant note
- name: NIH, award: HD045713, DC0088089
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2015
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070350002771
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