Five-year-olds are willing, but 4-year-olds refuse, to trust informants who offer new and unfamiliar labels for parts of the body

Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words

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Preschoolers Mistrust Ignorant and Inaccurate Speakers

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Trusting what you're told: how children learn from others

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Preschoolers monitor the relative accuracy of informants.

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Differential Accuracy, Language Development, Education +27