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Description: Mutual exclusivity (ME), the tendency that young children have to select a novel object upon hearing a novel label, gives children a basis to select a referent for an unknown label. However, this strategy may not be relevant to bilinguals who learn multiple labels for most objects. We investigated to what extent monolingual and bilingual children associate a novel label with a familiar, name-known object when a novel object is present using a tablet-based referent selection task. Subsequently, we examined whether children retained the novel word-object association as well as whether they formed associations between the novel labels and the familiar, name-known objects. We found that monolinguals and bilinguals relied on ME. Monolinguals retained novel word-object associations better than bilinguals, while bilinguals retained associations between novel labels and familiar, name-known objects better. Our findings indicate that the influence of language experience on children's word-learning strategies persists throughout the first decade of life.