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Results from Experiment 1 test trials: group-averaged proportion of participants who chose the plausible picture as a function of the speaker’s actual description, separately for adults and children. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals computed by nonparametric bootstrapping at the subject level using the multi_boot_standard function from the langcog package (Braginsky, Yurovsky, & Frank, 2015). The dashed line indicates chance performance.
