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    "pk": 29769,
    "title": "Preschoolers’ responses to unknown words: Questions and evaluation of definitionquality",
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    "abstract": "Asking questions about unknown things involves recognizing knowledge gaps, identifying information sources, and for-mulating appropriate questions. This active involvement propels development by individualizing the learning environment.To characterize active engagement in word learning, we investigated whether preschoolers ask questions about novel vo-cabulary and evaluate definition quality. In Study 1, preschoolers were asked to perform actions following instructionswith novel (transpose) or familiar (switch) verbs. They asked more questions about novel (M = 3.31 out of 9, SD = 3.34)than familiar verbs (M = .17, SD = .44), t(35) = -5.68, p ¡ .001. In Study 2, informative or uninformative definitions wereprovided. Preliminary data suggest that preschoolers only asked questions when faced with uninformative definitions (M= .65 out of 3). When faced with novel words, preschoolers not only elicit questions, but also determine whether theirinformation needs have been met.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Poster Session 2",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7461w5r8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Laura",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Janakiefski",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Vanderbilt University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Nicholas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tippenhauer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Vanderbilt University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Megan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Saylor",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Vanderbilt University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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