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    "title": "Taking the C-nic Route: Object-Directedness and Path, Not Efficiency, Shape Adults' Word Extension",
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    "abstract": "What intuitions guide adults in extending the meanings of new words? Are these intuitions consistent with prelinguistic sensitivities operative in infancy? Across two preregistered experiments, adult participants saw simple grid-world environments in which characters moved in a \"C\" path efficiently (or not) to an object (or not). These events were labeled with a novel verb or noun. Participants were asked whether that word applied to new events varying in object-directedness, path, and efficiency. By contrast to infants' focus on efficiency, adults instead focused on object-directedness and path, and they did so similarly for both verbs and nouns. Language might thus build on universal, prelinguistic assumptions of goal-directedness and efficiency to specify what goal an agent might have (e.g., object- vs. location-directed) as well as how an agent might achieve that goal (e.g., this vs. that kind of path), ultimately restricting the hypothesis space for action understanding and supporting learning.",
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Mohit",
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            "last_name": "Mukherji",
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            "institution": "New York University",
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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