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Title: What's New? Children Prefer Novelty in Referent Selection
Language: English
Authors: Horst, Jessica S., Samuelson, Larissa K., Kucker, Sarah C.
Source: Cognition. Feb 2011 118(2):234-244.
Availability: Elsevier. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800. Tel: 877-839-7126; Tel: 407-345-4020; Fax: 407-363-1354; e-mail: usjcs@elsevier.com; Web site: http://www.elsevier.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2011
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Descriptors: Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Novels, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Children, Task Analysis, Bias
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.015
ISSN: 0010-0277
Abstract: Determining the referent of a novel name is a critical task for young language learners. The majority of studies on children's referent selection focus on manipulating the sources of information (linguistic, contextual and pragmatic) that children can use to solve the referent mapping problem. Here, we take a step back and explore how children's endogenous biases towards novelty and their own familiarity with novel objects influence their performance in such a task. We familiarized 2-year-old children with previously novel objects. Then, on novel name referent selection trials children were asked to select the referent from three novel objects: two previously seen and one completely novel object. Children demonstrated a clear bias to select the most novel object. A second experiment controls for pragmatic responding and replicates this finding. We conclude, therefore, that children's referent selection is biased by previous exposure and children's endogenous bias to novelty. (Contains 3 figures.)
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