= Cross-situational word learning
<Learning> word–referent mappings by integrating information across individually ambiguous encounters. Recurrent co-occurrence can favour a mapping even when no single encounter uniquely identifies it. A target-looking preference need not distinguish parallel associative accumulation from testing and revising a candidate <hypothesis>.<Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics by Linda B. Smith and Chen Yu>[Cognition 106, 1558–1568; ambiguous word/picture pairings and target-versus-distractor looking]{ref}
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