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How do children and adults learn words? This paper shows that they benefit from relationships between multiple related, but distinct meanings for words. Such polysemous words are common in English (water runs, a child run, and a motor runs) vs. homophones or homonyms which are less common and, we show, harder to learn (flying bat, wooden bat).
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This page is a summary of: Children make use of relationships across meanings in word learning., Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000821.
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