Knowing How You Know: Toddlers Reevaluate Words Learned From an Unreliable Speaker

• Published in: Open mind (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 5; pp. 1 - 19
• Main Authors: Dautriche, Isabelle, Goupil, Louise, Smith, Kenny, Rabagliati, Hugh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.02.2021; MIT Press Journals, The; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Cognitive science; Labeling; Linguistics; metacognition; Psychology; selective trust; source monitoring; word learning

There has been little investigation of the way source monitoring, the ability to track the source of one’s knowledge, may be involved in lexical acquisition. In two experiments, we tested whether toddlers (mean age 30 months) can monitor the source of their lexical knowledge and reevaluate their imp...