Distributional learning aids linguistic category formation in school-age children
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The Role of Distributional Information in Linguistic Category Formation
A crucial component of language acquisition involves organizing words into grammatical categories and discovering relations between them. Many studies have argued that phonological or semantic cues or multiple correlated cues are required for learning. Here we examine how distributional variables will shift learners from forming a category of lexical items to maintaining lexical specificity. In...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Child Language
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0305-0009,1469-7602
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000917000435