PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Syntactic Bootstrapping, Text Segmentation, Language Development
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He could be referring to the action, object, it could be the combination maybe it is a speci c word to a grey rabbit that is running or it can be a question, it can be about anything !! ****but researchers don"t think how this language works !! Arguments against behaviourist account (how language should work!) 30% of the time a word is uttered the object it refers to isn"t present when parents do label things it is mostly nouns. They have to learn abstract terms and non-nouns with no word- world mapping / abstract like he-she-it . Solving the reference problem whole object bias basic level bias shape and functional biases linguistic context ( grammatical form of the word) syntactic bootstrapping (grammatical structure of the sentence ) mutual exclusivity bias theory of mind and pragmatics. Whole object bias refers to a single object, the whole thing (rabbit) not grey, not tailsit refers to the while object.
