{"pk":28468,"title":"The everyday statistics of objects and their names: How word learning gets its start","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A key question in early word learning is how infants learn their\nfirst object names despite a natural environment thought to\nprovide messy data for linking object names to their referents.\nUsing head cameras worn by 7 to 11-month-old infants in the\nhome, we document the statistics of visual objects, spoken\nobject names, and their co-occurrence in everyday meal time\nevents. We show that the extremely right skewed frequency\ndistribution of visual objects underlies word-referent co-\noccurrence statistics that set up a clear signal in the noise upon\nwhich infants could capitalize to learn their first object names.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"word learning; natural statistics; egocentric vision"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hc8s9qn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Clerkin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Linda","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Smith","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28468/galley/18339/download/"}]}