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Learning Words from Context: A Powerful Associative Mechanism of Early Word Learning
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In: http://141.14.165.6/CogSci09/papers/50/paper50.pdf
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Abstract:
Word learning consists of several very difficult problems. First, when presented with a novel word, the young word learner has to solve a mapping problem – how to map the word in question onto the world. And second, the word learner has to solve a generalization problem – given that most of the time words can be extended to multiple individuals, it is necessary to determine the class of entities the word refers to. Both problems are massively underdetermined by the input. Given this massive uncertainty, how do young children acquire meanings of new words? Several ideas have been proposed to explain the word learner’s ability to handle this word-world indeterminacy. According to one approach, the problem of word learning requires reasoning and problem solving skills (see Bloom
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Keyword:
Attention; Cognitive Development; Human Experimentation; Language Acquisition; Psychology
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.412.4734
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