In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations. Currently, little is known about how language environment influences referent identification. Comparisons between bilinguals and monolinguals offer a unique window into this interaction. The aim of this dissertation is to explore how bilinguals and monolinguals acquire words for categories at different ages as well as their use of disambiguation strategies. Specifically, we asked whether bilinguals' early advantage in executive function, together with the need to learn in noisier contexts, may translate into different word learning strategies. In Experiments 1-4, we tested 8-, 15-, and 19-month-old infants with a fast categorization task....
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fun...
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infa...
Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17-month-old infants, but not 14- or 16-month-olds, use a strategy...
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations...
To rise to the challenge of acquiring their native language, infants must deploy tools to support th...
The present set of studies explore how infants make their first breakthroughs into a second language...
The studies included in this dissertation explore lexical-semantic development within early toddlerh...
Labeling objects during categorization tasks has been repeatedly shown to help infants categorize ...
Although it is widely recognized that human infants build a sizeable conceptual repertoire before ma...
Prior research has shown that, at the initial stages of lexical development, children have a number...
Fourteen-month-old infants raised in a monolingual English environment confuse phonetically similar...
Previous research indicates that monolingual infants have difficulty learning minimal pairs (i.e., w...
Children growing up bilingual face a unique linguistic environment. The current study investigated w...
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infa...
This thesis investigates the strategies infants use to generalise labels to different objects in the...
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fun...
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infa...
Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17-month-old infants, but not 14- or 16-month-olds, use a strategy...
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations...
To rise to the challenge of acquiring their native language, infants must deploy tools to support th...
The present set of studies explore how infants make their first breakthroughs into a second language...
The studies included in this dissertation explore lexical-semantic development within early toddlerh...
Labeling objects during categorization tasks has been repeatedly shown to help infants categorize ...
Although it is widely recognized that human infants build a sizeable conceptual repertoire before ma...
Prior research has shown that, at the initial stages of lexical development, children have a number...
Fourteen-month-old infants raised in a monolingual English environment confuse phonetically similar...
Previous research indicates that monolingual infants have difficulty learning minimal pairs (i.e., w...
Children growing up bilingual face a unique linguistic environment. The current study investigated w...
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infa...
This thesis investigates the strategies infants use to generalise labels to different objects in the...
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fun...
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by guiding infa...
Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17-month-old infants, but not 14- or 16-month-olds, use a strategy...