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@article{ART002205867},
author={Hyuna Lee and Eun Young Kim and Hyun Joo SONG},
title={The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning},
journal={THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY},
issn={1229-0718},
year={2017},
volume={30},
number={1},
pages={103-115}

TY - JOUR
AU - Hyuna Lee
AU - Eun Young Kim
AU - Hyun Joo SONG
TI - The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning
JO - THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
PY - 2017
VL - 30
IS - 1
PB - The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
SP - 103
EP - 115
SN - 1229-0718
AB - Young children readily exploit the mutual exclusivity assumption that each object has one category label, when inferring the referent of a novel word. However, one should suspend this assumption when interpreting a word from a foreign language, which does not share the same knowledge of words with one’s native language. The present study investigated 2- to 3-year-olds’ ability to suspend the mutual exclusivity assumption toward a foreign word. In the native language test trials, a Korean-speaking experimenter presented the children with one familiar object and one novel object, and asked the child to pick a referent of a novel Korean word, “muppi”. In the foreign language trials, on the other hand, a Spanish-speaking experimenter presented the child with one familiar and one novel object, and asked the child to pick a referent of a novel Spanish word, “Pefo”. In the native language test trials, children chose the novel object more often than predicted by chance and there was no significant age difference. In the foreign language test trials, 2-year-olds again selected the novel object more often than predicted by chance, whereas 3-year-olds’ performance was not significantly different from chance. These results suggest that the ability to suspend mutual exclusivity in interpreting a foreign word develops between 2 and 3 years of age.
KW - language acquisition;foreign language learning;mutual exclusivity assumption
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Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim and Hyun Joo SONG. (2017). The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning. THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 30(1), 103-115.

Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim and Hyun Joo SONG. 2017, "The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning", THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol.30, no.1 pp.103-115.

Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim, Hyun Joo SONG "The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning" THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 30.1 pp.103-115 (2017) : 103.

Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim, Hyun Joo SONG. The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning. 2017; 30(1), 103-115.

Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim and Hyun Joo SONG. "The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning" THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 30, no.1 (2017) : 103-115.

Hyuna Lee; Eun Young Kim; Hyun Joo SONG. The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning. THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 30(1), 103-115.

Hyuna Lee; Eun Young Kim; Hyun Joo SONG. The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning. THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2017; 30(1) 103-115.

Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim, Hyun Joo SONG. The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning. 2017; 30(1), 103-115.

Hyuna Lee, Eun Young Kim and Hyun Joo SONG. "The development of children's abilities to flexibly use mutual exclusivity in word learning" THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 30, no.1 (2017) : 103-115.