Applicatin of_mutual exclusivity.docVIP

Application of Mutual Exclusivity in Early Child Vocabulary Learning 1. Introduction This project focuses on one of the constraints: mutual exclusivity. It found that the tendency to select unfamiliar rather than familiar things as the referents of new names, could be reversed in young 2-year-olds, but not older children, by preexposing the unfamiliar objects (Merriman Schuster, 1991). Mutual exclusivity supposedly guides children’s initial label acquisition (Markman Wachtel, 1988; Markman, 1991, 1992; Liittschwager Markman, 1994), helps children narrow over