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Parents with fewer educational and economic resources (low socioeconomic‐status, SES) tend to speak less to their children, with consequences for children's later life outcomes. Despite this well‐established and highly popularized link, less research addresses why the SES “word gap” exists. Moreover, while research has assessed individual‐level contributors to the word gap—like differences in parenting...
One reason that word learning presents a challenge for children is because pairings between word forms and meanings are arbitrary conventions that children must learn via observation – e.g., the fact that “shovel” labels shovels. The present studies explore cases in which children might bypass observational learning and spontaneously infer new word meanings: By exploiting the fact that many words...
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