When is a word in good company for learning?
When is a word in good company for learning?
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DOI：
10.1111/desc.13510
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发表时间：
2024-04-10
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Sloutsky，Vladimir M.
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作者：
Unger，Layla;Chang，Tyler;Sloutsky，Vladimir M.
虽然识别单个单词的指称通常被认为是单词学习的一个关键挑战，但它忽略了一个事实，即年轻的学习者总是在其他单词的上下文中遇到单词。这个公司如何帮助或阻碍单词学习？先前对儿童早期从真实的世界语言输入中学习单词的研究得出了相互矛盾的结果，一些有影响力的发现表明，与其他单词保持多样化的单词具有优势，而其他人则相反。在这里，我们试图对这种冲突的根源进行三角测量，比较不同的多样性措施和控制多种语言中词频相关效应的方法。结果是惊人的：虽然不同的多样性措施本身产生了相互矛盾的结果，一旦控制了与词频的非线性关系，我们发现了一致的证据，即上下文一致性支持早期单词学习。公司的话保持范围从高度可变的高度一致和限制。以前的研究结果冲突是否变化与一致性有助于早期单词学习。考虑到词频的相关影响解决了多种语言之间的冲突。结果显示收敛的证据一致性有助于早期单词学习。
Although identifying the referents of single words is often cited as a key challenge for getting word learning off the ground, it overlooks the fact that young learners consistently encounter words in the context of other words. How does this company help or hinder word learning? Prior investigations into early word learning from children's real‐world language input have yielded conflicting results, with some influential findings suggesting an advantage for words that keep a diverse company of other words, and others suggesting the opposite. Here, we sought to triangulate the source of this conflict, comparing different measures of diversity and approaches to controlling for correlated effects of word frequency across multiple languages. The results were striking: while different diversity measures on their own yielded conflicting results, once nonlinear relationships with word frequency were controlled, we found convergent evidence that contextual consistency supports early word learning.Research HighlightsThe words children learn occur in a sea of other words. The company words keep ranges from highly variable to highly consistent and circumscribed.Prior findings conflict over whether variability versus consistency helps early word learning.Accounting for correlated effects of word frequency resolved the conflict across multiple languages.Results reveal convergent evidence that consistency helps early word learning.