When Meaning Is Not Enough: Distributional and Semantic Cues to Word Categorization in Child Directed Speech
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When Meaning Is Not Enough: Distributional and Semantic Cues to Word Categorization in Child Directed Speech
One of the most important tasks in first language development is assigning words to their grammatical category. The Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis postulates that, in order to accomplish this task, children are guided by a neat correspondence between semantic and grammatical categories, since nouns typically refer to objects and verbs to actions. It is this correspondence that guides childre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01242