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    "title": "Twice Upon a Time: Children Use Syntactic Bootstrapping to Learn the Meanings of Yesterday and Tomorrow",
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    "abstract": "Time words like ‘yesterday' and ‘tomorrow' are abstract, and are interpreted relative to the context in which they are produced: the word ‘tomorrow' refers to a different point in time now than in 24 hours. We tested 112 3- to 5-year-old Hindi-speaking children on their knowledge of ‘yesterday' and ‘tomorrow', which are represented by the same word in Hindi-Urdu: ‘kal'. We found that Hindi learners performed better than English learners when tested on actual past and future events, but that performance for hypothetical events was poor for both groups. Compatible with a “syntactic bootstrapping” account, we conclude that syntactic tense information – which is necessary for differentiating ‘yesterday' from ‘tomorrow' in Hindi – may play a stronger role in learning these words than mapping of specific words to particular past and future events (“event mapping”).",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Psychology; Cognition of Time; Language development; Syntax; Cross-linguistic analysis"
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            "first_name": "Urvi",
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            "last_name": "Maheshwari",
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            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
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            "first_name": "David",
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            "last_name": "Barner",
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            "institution": "UC San Diego",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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