familiar object
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffamiliarandobject
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familiar
adjective
uk/fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us/fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, ...
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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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(Definition offamiliarandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffamiliar object
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The recognition of afamiliarobjectis a neural computation.
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In both studies, children were not exposed to thefamiliarobjectkinds until the disambiguation task.
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That is, both monolingual and bilingual children were equally likely to select thefamiliarobjectfollowing its familiar name.
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Each item consisted of a picture of afamiliarobjecton one page and six alternatives on a page below.
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A second assumption relates to the number of words of a particular category applied to a singlefamiliarobject.
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Monolingual children were also more likely than bilingual children to reject a new name for afamiliarobject.
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In contrast, older monolingual and bilingual children were equally likely to select thefamiliarobjectfollowing its familiar name.
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If the child named the novel object or failed to name thefamiliarobject, the set was replaced.
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Here, the telephone is a unique andfamiliarobject(and hence it is marked with the definite determiner), but it is not specific.
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On each of four trials, caregivers had to select one of two cards, both of which showed afamiliarobjectbearing an unfamiliar property.
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In the third trial, the experimenter placed an unfamiliar object on the table, and a marker (familiarobject) inside the bucket.
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Thefamiliarobjectcarries a set of expectations and cultural signification which the artist often capitalises on, whereas a novel interfacial object requires explanation.
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In the second trial, the experimenter placed a plate (familiarobject) on the table, and an unfamiliar object inside the bucket.
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The order of object pre-exposure, unfamiliar andfamiliarobjectpairing, and object test trial presentation and request were first randomized across children.
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In this condition, the experimenter showed children pairs consisting of a visiblefamiliarobjectand an opaque bucket containing a novel object.
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The only difference between the two versions of each new object was that one was perceptually more similar to thefamiliarobjectthan the other.
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In this phase, the experimenter brought out afamiliarobject, a novel object, and a bucket containing yet a different novel object.
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In the first trial, the experimenter showed children the bucket, and placed a flower (afamiliarobject) inside it as children watched.
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Thus, the two versions of each new object were equally similar\\different to the correspondingfamiliarobjectin terms of their taxonomic relatedness, functional similarity, and thematic association.
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Half the sets consisted of pictures of an unfamiliar and afamiliarobject, whereas the other half consisted of pictures of one unfamiliar and three familiar items.
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The dustbin was used because it is afamiliarobjectof relatively standard proportions.
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They are afamiliarobjectto the great majority of road users.
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However, given that in the standard disambiguation context no obvious difference in meaning is provided, the two principles may motivate children to avoid a second label for afamiliarobject.
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We presented children with three objects on the word-mapping trials : one unfamiliar object that had been pre-exposed, a novel object that had not been pre-exposed, and afamiliarobject.
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