NOUN LEARNING PHASE

Abstract

1) Listeners integrate information from the visual context, the linguistic context, and their world knowledge into comprehension: When hearing the restrictive verb eat, for instance, they look rapidly and predictively to edible objects in visual scenes (Altman & Kamide, 1999). This mechanism enables word learning in adults (word learning based on verbal constraints, WLVC, Köhne & Crocker, 2010). 2) Language novices exploit their experiences with co-occurring visual referents and novel words to learn word meanings (cross-situational word learning, CSWL, Yu & Smith, 2007). 3) These mechanisms interact in a beneficial way in second language word learning when they are applicable in a complementary way (Köhne & Crocker, 2010). Which cue dominates when WLVC and CSWL are in conflict? � Experiment 1 What is the nature of CSWL and WLVC? Is