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    "pk": 28531,
    "title": "Children Learn Words Better in Low Entropy",
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    "abstract": "During their first year, infants learn to name objects. To do so,\nthey need to segment speech, extract the label and map it to the\ncorrect referent. While children successfully do so in the wild,\nprevious results suggest they struggle to simultaneously learn\nsegmentation and object-label pairings in the lab. Here, we ask\nif some of children’s difficulty is related to the uniform\ndistribution they were exposed to, since it differs from that of\nnatural language, and has high entropy (making it less\npredictable). Will a low entropy distribution facilitate\nchildren’s performance in these two tasks? We looked at\nchildren’s (mean age=10;4 years) simultaneous segmentation\nand object-label mapping of words in an artificial language\ntask. Low entropy (created by making one word more frequent)\nfacilitated children's performance in both tasks. We discuss the\nimportance of using more ecologic stimuli in the lab,\nspecifically- distributions with lower entropy.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Statistical learning; Multi-modal cues; Word\nsegmentation; Word learning; Entropy; Children."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37p381r7",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ori",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lavi-Rotbain",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Hebrew University Jerusalem",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Inbal",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Arnon",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Hebrew University Jerusalem",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}