{"title":"The Effects of Learning and Retrieval Contexts on Cross-situational Word Learning.","authors":"Chi-Hsin Chen, Chen Yu","doi":"10.1109/DEVLRN.2015.7346141","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural linguistic environments usually provide structured input, in that words that are semantically-related are likely to occur in the same situation. The current study examined whether this kind of semantically-themed structure facilitated cross-situational word learning. Results from two experiments consistently showed that participants had higher performance in semantically-themed learning contexts. In contrast, themed retrieval contexts did not affect performance. Our work suggests that learners' ability to use statistical information to acquire word-to-object mappings is enhanced when learning is put in a more naturalistic and structured context.</p>","PeriodicalId":91876,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics : [proceedings]. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/DEVLRN.2015.7346141","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics : [proceedings]. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEVLRN.2015.7346141","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2015/12/7 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Natural linguistic environments usually provide structured input, in that words that are semantically-related are likely to occur in the same situation. The current study examined whether this kind of semantically-themed structure facilitated cross-situational word learning. Results from two experiments consistently showed that participants had higher performance in semantically-themed learning contexts. In contrast, themed retrieval contexts did not affect performance. Our work suggests that learners' ability to use statistical information to acquire word-to-object mappings is enhanced when learning is put in a more naturalistic and structured context.