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Zhang, Yayun; Yurovsky, Daniel; Yu, Chen – Cognitive Science, 2021
Recent laboratory experiments have shown that both infant and adult learners can acquire word-referent mappings using cross-situational statistics. The vast majority of the work on this topic has used unfamiliar objects presented on neutral backgrounds as the visual contexts for word learning. However, these laboratory contexts are much different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Generalization
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Vong, Wai Keen; Lake, Brenden M. – Cognitive Science, 2022
In order to learn the mappings from words to referents, children must integrate co-occurrence information across individually ambiguous pairs of scenes and utterances, a challenge known as cross-situational word learning. In machine learning, recent multimodal neural networks have been shown to learn meaningful visual-linguistic mappings from…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Cognitive Mapping, Problem Solving, Visual Aids
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Brand, James; Monaghan, Padraic; Walker, Peter – Cognitive Science, 2018
Natural language contains many examples of sound-symbolism, where the form of the word carries information about its meaning. Such systematicity is more prevalent in the words children acquire first, but arbitrariness dominates during later vocabulary development. Furthermore, systematicity appears to promote learning category distinctions, which…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Grammar, Cognitive Mapping
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Shoaib, Amber; Wang, Tianlin; Hay, Jessica F.; Lany, Jill – Cognitive Science, 2018
Infants are sensitive to statistical regularities (i.e., transitional probabilities, or TPs) relevant to segmenting words in fluent speech. However, there is debate about whether tracking TPs results in representations of possible words. Infants show preferential learning of sequences with high TPs (HTPs) as object labels relative to those with…
Descriptors: Infants, Italian, English, Native Language