GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
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Question
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Script formation
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Overregularization
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Mutual exclusivity
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Rote recall
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mutual exclusivity is a generally helpful assumption that young children (and adults) use as they learn a language. Under this assumption, they tend to believe an object should have just one name. This leads them to expect a new name for a new object and to avoid giving one object multiple names.
Detailed explanation-2: -adjective. Britannica Dictionary definition of MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. : related in such a way that each thing makes the other thing impossible : not able to be true at the same time or to exist together. War and peace are mutually exclusive.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most extensively studied constraints is known as the mutual exclusivity bias (MEB). MEB describes children’s and adults’ tendency to assume that an object can have only one linguistic label (e.g., Markman and Wachtel, 1988; Markman, 1989; Merriman et al., 1989; Mather and Plunkett, 2009).
Detailed explanation-4: -For example, children treat objects as if they have only one label. So, if a child has learned the word hammer, they won’t assume an unfamiliar tool has the same name. This is the principle of mutual exclusivity.