An associative account of the development of word learning.

Word learning is a notoriously difficult induction problem because meaning is underdetermined by positive examples. How do children solve this problem? Some have argued that word learning is achieved by means of inference: young word learners rely on a number of assumptions that reduce the overall h...

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Published in:	Cognitive Psychology Vol. 97; pp. 1 - 31
Main Authors:	Sloutsky, Vladimir M., Yim, Hyungwook, Yao, Xin, Dennis, Simon
Format:	Article
Published:	Academic Press Inc. Sep2017
Subjects:	Language awareness in children Cognitive psychology Associative learning Psychology of learning Associative memory (Psychology)
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