unfamiliar object
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunfamiliarandobject
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unfamiliar
adjective
uk/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
not known ...
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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In fact, older monolingual children selected theunfamiliarobjectfollowing an unfamiliar name over 90 % of the time.
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In the third trial, the experimenter placed anunfamiliarobjecton the table, and a marker (familiar object) inside the bucket.
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Disambiguation occurred on any trial in which the disambiguation probe (either the novel word or the novel fact) was assigned to the second,unfamiliarobject.
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The disambiguation effect refers to the finding that children often point to theunfamiliarobjectafter hearing the artificial name.
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In the final phase, the disambiguation test, 12 pairs of objects were created, with one familiar and oneunfamiliarobjectin each pair.
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In the second trial, the experimenter placed a plate (familiar object) on the table, and anunfamiliarobjectinside the bucket.
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A second possibility is that anunfamiliarobjectamong three familiars is relatively less salient than anunfamiliarobjectin a pair.
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For anyunfamiliarobject, whether presented to the eye or hand, exploratory movement is requisite to clarify ambiguities.
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Although, given longer to decide, a subject can apply conscious cognitive processes to interpret the state of anunfamiliarobject.
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According to the fast mapping hypothesis, a novel word should be mapped onto theunfamiliarobject.
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On this standard disambiguation task children reliably select theunfamiliarobject.
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The same objects were used in the second sub-trial of each trial, with the addition of a furtherunfamiliarobject.
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Following a label, the experimenter recorded whether children pointed to the familiar orunfamiliarobjectfor each pair.
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In fact, these older monolingual children almost always selected theunfamiliarobjectfollowing an artificial name.
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In the first sub-trial of each trial, there were two familiar objects and oneunfamiliarobject.
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We presented children with three objects on the word-mapping trials : oneunfamiliarobjectthat had been pre-exposed, a novel object that had not been pre-exposed, and a familiar object.
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Eachunfamiliarobjectand each familiar object was requested once, and the familiar andunfamiliarobject pairings were randomized such that no pairing occurred twice in the six trials.
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In the testing phase, or the disambiguation test, children are shown pairs of the objects, with each pair consisting of one familiar and oneunfamiliarobject.
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