June Choe

Children use speaker knowledge to learn novel subordinate vs. basic-level nouns.

Children typically prefer the so-called "basic"-level (e.g., dog) versus narrower subordinate (e.g., dalmatian) meanings in acquisition. Subordinate conjectures are facilitated by contrast; for example, when shown a dalmatian and a corgi each labelled "dax" and "wug," learners take "dax" to mean dalmatian, as opposed t...