What have we learned from 15 years of research on cross-situational word learning? A focused review

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Andrea M. Philipp¹  Iring Koch¹  Matilde E. Simonetti¹  Tanja C. Roembke² 

[1] Chair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;null;

关键词: cross-situational word learning;    cross-situational statistical learning;    word learning;    language acquisition;    review;    referential ambiguity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1175272

 received in 2023-02-27, accepted in 2023-06-09,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In 2007 and 2008, Yu and Smith published their seminal studies on cross-situational word learning (CSWL) in adults and infants, showing that word-object-mappings can be acquired from distributed statistics despite in-the-moment uncertainty. Since then, the CSWL paradigm has been used extensively to better understand (statistical) word learning in different language learners and under different learning conditions. The goal of this review is to provide an entry-level overview of findings and themes that have emerged in 15 years of research on CSWL across three topic areas (mechanisms of CSWL, CSWL across different learner and task characteristics) and to highlight the questions that remain to be answered.

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