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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2023

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

Tanja C Roembke, Matilde E Simonetti, Iring Koch, Andrea M Philipp

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tanja C RoembkeChair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Matilde E SimonettiChair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Iring KochChair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Andrea M PhilippChair of Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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cross-situational statistical learningcross-situational word learninglanguage acquisitionreferential ambiguityreviewword learning

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PMID37546430
PMCPMC10400455

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