{"pk":28714,"title":"Toddlers recognize multiple polysemous meanings and use them to infer additionalmeanings","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Up to 80% of words have multiple, related meanings (polysemy), yet work on early word learning has almost uniformlyassumed one-to-one mappings between form and meaning. Using a looking-while-listening procedure, we present thefirst evidence that toddlers (n=40) can recognize multiple meanings for common nouns, e.g., dog collar, shirt collar. In anEnglish-meaning condition, toddlers were tested on their ability to recognize multiple English meanings for polysemouswords such as cap (e.g., a baseball cap and a bottle cap). Another condition prompted toddlers with the same Englishwords (e.g., cap), but target referents instead corresponded to the words polysemous extension in an unfamiliar language,(e.g., lid is a meaning for Spanishs cap, tapa). Toddlers looked to the correct targets above chance on both trial types,but with greater accuracy on English-meaning trials, demonstrating a recognition of familiar word-meaning pairs and anability to infer potential new meanings.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7557w34h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sammy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Floyd","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Adele","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goldberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Casey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lew-Williams","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton 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/28714/galley/18585/download/"}]}