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The Role of Systematicity in Early Referent Selection
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Description: This project investigates whether children favour a systematic relation between word form and word meaning, that is, whether words which sound similar (e.g., phonological neighbours) also refer to similar things (e.g., semantic neighbours). In particular, when presented with a novel phonological label of a newly learned word, do 2-year-olds preferentially fixate a novel object which looks similar to the target of this newly learned word (i.e., evidence for systematicity) or a novel object which looks different from the target of this newly learned word (i.e., evidence for arbitrariness)?
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