Lexical competition in young children’s word learning
Swingley D, Aslin RN. Lexical competition in young children’s word learning. Cognitive Psychology 2006, 54: 99-132. PMID: 17054932, PMCID: PMC2613642, DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.05.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLexical competitionNovel wordsNovel neighborPicture fixation taskPhonological sensitivityChildren's wordFamiliar wordsPhonetic categoriesSpeech comprehensionNew wordsNovel objectsPhonological differencesSound patternsRecognition performanceWordsYoung childrenFamiliar neighborsChildrenComprehensionUtterancesInhibitory interactionsTaskNonneighborsAdultsDiscrimination