PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syntactic Bootstrapping, German Shepherd, Mutual Exclusivity
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This would cause problems when you need to learn the name for a part of an object. Ex. wheels on the bicycle as opposed to the bicycle as a whole. Link novel word to object you don"t know word for. Ex. present child with fork, spoon, and tongs child can assume that you"re referring to the tongs when you ask them to go get the tongs because he/she already knows the words/names for fork and spoon. Children"s mapping of novel labels can reflect their social and pragmatic intelligence. The social pragmatic account emphasizes the importance of these cues. Speaker"s affective behaviour: speaker will sound comparatively enthusiastic/excited when referring to the object, let"s find the mido , conventionality. Words = part of a code shared by speech community (not just the person you learned it from) Children understand that preferences can"t be extended across different people but words can be.
