{"pk":27568,"title":"Mutual Exclusivity Revisited – When Pragmatics overrides Novelty","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Children typically apply a novel label to a novel object, rather than to a familiar object; a phenomenon called MutualExclusivity (Markman et al., 2003). A recent explanation is that children tend to associate novel stimuli together (Horst et al.,2011). We show that pragmatic factors may override novelty. In our study two-year-old children first played with a novel objecttogether with E1. Then E1 left the room and E2 brought another three novel objects for the child to manipulate on his/her own.Finally, E1 came back and requested the child to give her the ‘Bitye’. Most children chose the first object, with which theyhad a common history with E1, even though it was the least novel. This suggests that children understand a novel word byconsidering to which object the speaker is most likely to have intended to refer.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76p0s41s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hanna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marno","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""},{"first_name":"Dan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sperber","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27568/galley/17204/download/"}]}