In all of the reported experimental results, children can readily pick the correct referent for a familiar or a novel target word in such a setting (Golinkoff et al., 1992;Halberda and Goldman, 2008;Halberda, 2006;Horst and Samuelson, 2008).
halberda's eye-tracking experiments on both adults and pre-schoolers suggest that the processes involved for referent selection in the familiar target situation may be different from those in the novel target situation.