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Précis of How children learn the meanings of words.
Normal children learn tens of thousands of words, and do so quickly and efficiently, often in highly impoverished environments. In How Children Learn the Meanings of Words, I argue that word learning is the product of certain cognitive and linguistic abilities that include the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic cues to meaning, and a rich understanding of the mental state...
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Verb learning is clearly a function of observation of real-world contingencies; however, it is argued that such observational information is insufficient to account fully for vocabulary acquisition. This paper provides an experimental validation of Landau & Gleitman's (1985) syntactic bootstrapping procedure; namely, that children may use syntactic information to learn new verbs. Pairs of actio...
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(2005). How chi ldren learn the meaning of words and how LSA does it (too).
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Issues in Applied Linguistics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 2379-4542,1050-4273
DOI: 10.5070/l4121005039