It was a nonsense word, so no dictionary would ever have contained it.
After saying a nonsense word ("blicket," for instance), she would ask them to point to the matching item.
In this study, we found a significant correlation between performance on each tense marker and nonsense word repetition in the children with autism.
The mutual exclusivity bias would not have competition, and the pseudo-homonym would function much like a nonsense word.
Participants need to identify the object to which the nonsense word refers and subsequently identify it on the answer sheet.
The nonsense word trials do not adequately control for this.
The second segment's key word was either a pseudo-homonym or a nonsense word.