LING 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Mutual Exclusivity, Intransitive Verb
18 Dec 2017
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Goal: replicate the findings and make sure that the novelty effect is seen for novel members of the category in question and not any arbitrary novel object. Experiment 1 they were familiarized with one category of objects (ex: cars) and then in the test they were shown the cars and a plane. If the novelty effect is present the kids should be unable to decide between the two. Experiment 2 found that when the kids were presented with two novelty items we do not see a preference between the two new items which is expected. High vocab: novel nouns and adjectives were noticeably different. Low vocab: novel nouns don"t make a difference. But what seems to work the best is not giving them anything. Be very careful when you split kids up like this, make sure you have a priori hypothesis of why you are splitting up the kids this way, don"t do anything fishy.
