Sentence-based attention mechanisms in word learning: Evidence from a computational model

Sentence-based attention mechanisms in word learning: Evidence from a computational model

When looking for the referents of nouns, adults and young children are sensitive to cross- situational statistics (Yu & Smith, 2007; Smith & Yu, 2008). In addition, the linguistic context that a word appears in has been shown to act as a powerful attention mechanism for guiding sente...

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Main Authors: Afra eAlishahi, Afsaneh eFazly, Judith eKoehne, Matthew W Crocker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Probabilistic Modeling
Cross-situational Word Learning
Syntactic Bootstrapping
Context-based Attention Mechanisms
linguistic context
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00200/full

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