What's New? Children Prefer Novelty in Referent Selection

Autor/inn/en	Horst, Jessica S.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Kucker, Sarah C.; McMurray, Bob
Titel	What's New? Children Prefer Novelty in Referent Selection
Quelle	In: Cognition, 118 (2011) 2, S.234-244 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.015
Schlagwörter	Familiarity; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Novels; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Children; Task Analysis; Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pragmalinguistik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Aufgabenanalyse
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.) (As Provided).
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