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    "pk": 27024,
    "title": "The Learning of Subordinate Word Meanings",
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    "abstract": "In three experiments, adults attempted to learn words with subordinate-level meanings (dalmatian) by sampling thereferent world cross-situationally. Xu & Tenenbaum, 2007 predicted that encountering three uses of a word, each referringto a dalmatian would evoke “suspicious coincidence” inferencing, leading to the subordinate meaning (dalmatian). Exp. 1found little evidence for this; cross-situational exposure led to a basic-level bias. This bias was unchanged even when thesample was increased to five subordinate exemplars (Exp. 2). Exp. 3 encouraged semantic contrast by simultaneously teachingeach subject a word for the subordinate-level and the basic-level category within the same semantic domain (dap=dalmatian;blit=dog). Participants now showed non-basic level learning, but more in line with mutual exclusivity: they may think “dap”means dalmatian but “blit” means all-dogs-except-dalmatians. We conclude that the basic-level interpretation is powerful andcannot be removed by the mere observation of exemplar items over multiple word instances.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3931253t",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Hao",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Lila",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gleitman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Trueswell",
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            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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