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    "pk": 28535,
    "title": "Parents Calibrate Speech to Their Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Young children learn language at an incredible rate. Whilechildren come prepared with powerful statistical learningmechanisms, the statistics they encounter are also prepared forthem: Children learn from caregivers motivated to communi-cate with them. Do caregivers modify their speech in orderto support children’s comprehension? We asked children andtheir parents to play a simple reference game in which the par-ent’s goal was to guide their child to select a target animal froma set of three. We show that parents calibrate their referringexpressions to their children’s language knowledge, produc-ing more informative references for animals that they thoughttheir children did not know. Further, parents learn about theirchildren’s knowledge over the course of the game, and cali-brate their referring expressions accordingly. These results un-derscore the importance of understanding the communicativecontext in which language learning happens.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "parent-child interaction; language development;communication"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t85207x",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ashley",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Leung",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Alexandra",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tunkel",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yurovsky",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Chicago",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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