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How much does a shared name make things similar? Linguistic labels, similarity, and the development of inductive inference. ...
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How much does a shared name make things similar? Linguistic labels, similarity, and the development of inductive inference. ...
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Categories, Concepts, and Conceptual Development
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In: Lang Cogn Neurosci (2017)
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An associative account of the development of word learning
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Word learning is a notoriously difficult induction problem because meaning is underdetermined by positive examples. How do children solve this problem? Some have argued that word learning is achieved by means of inference: young word learners rely on a number of assumptions that reduce the overall hypothesis space by favoring some meanings over others. However, these approaches have difficulty explaining how words are learned from conversations or text, without pointing or explicit instruction. In this research, we propose an associative mechanism that can account for such learning. In a series of experiments, 4-year-olds and adults were presented with sets of words that included a single nonsense word (e.g. dax). Some lists were taxonomic (i.,e., all items were members of a given category), some were associative (i.e., all items were associates of a given category, but not members), and some were mixed. Participants were asked to indicate whether the nonsense word was an animal or an artifact. Adults exhibited evidence of learning when lists consisted of either associatively or taxonomically related items. In contrast, children exhibited evidence of word learning only when lists consisted of associatively related items. These results present challenges to several extant models of word learning, and a new model based on the distinction between syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations is proposed.
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cognitive development; semantic development; word learning
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354492
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Linguistic Labels, Dynamic Visual Features, and Attention in Infant Category Learning
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Effects of Categorical Labels on Similarity Judgments: A Critical Evaluation of a Critical Analysis: Comment on Noles and Gelman ...
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Effects of Categorical Labels on Similarity Judgments: A Critical Evaluation of a Critical Analysis: Comment on Noles and Gelman ...
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The Role of Linguistic Labels in Infants' Categorization: An Eye Tracking Study ...
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Linguistic labels: Conceptual markers or object features? ...
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