Learning words [Elektronische Ressource] : comparing two-year-olds’ learning success in dyadic and triadic teaching situations embedded in familiar and unfamiliar contexts / Juana Salas Poblete. Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft. Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics

Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Universität Bielefeld Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) Learning Words: Comparing Two-Year-Olds’ Learning Success in Dyadic and Triadic Teaching Situations Embedded in Familiar and Unfamiliar Contexts von: Juana Salas Poblete eingereicht im Juli 2011 Erstgutachter: PD Katharina Rohlfing Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dausendschön-Gay Learning Words This work was funded by Honda Research Institute Europe within the Graduate School of the Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics. 2 Table  of  Contents  1. Introduction................................................................................................................ 4 2. Dyadic vs. triadic word learning 8 2.1. A case of word learning in animals: The Alex Studies....... 8 2.2. Triadic interaction in child studies .................................................................... 10 2.2.1. Sociolinguistic research on triadic learning.................................................... 11 2.2.1.1. The Quiché Mayan language community 12 2.2.1.2. The Kaluli language community ................................................................. 12 2.2.1.3. The Athabaskan language communities...................... 13 2.2.1.4. Trackton English.......................................................... 14 2.2.1.5.