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Rabagliati, Hugh; Marcus, Gary F.; Pylkkanen, Liina – Cognition, 2010
Most words are associated with multiple senses. A DVD can be round (when describing a disc), and a DVD can be an hour long (when describing a movie), and in each case DVD means something different. The possible senses of a word are often predictable, and also constrained, as words cannot take just any meaning: for example, although a movie can be…
Descriptors: Semantics, Learning Strategies, Language Processing, Natural Language Processing