LING444 Lecture 7: LING444 Lecture : LING444 Lecture :
30 Jan 2019
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Preset biases that limit kind of hypotheses that children entertain: whole object assumption. Word is most likely to be about entire object not little details about i. Harder to learn for them, the adjecives, verbs and preopisitons are slowed down compared to nouns like. Assumes that every object has just one name. How about relational terms? (verbs and prepoisitions) Child is not attempting to map a word to an object in the world, instead a child is attempting to discover another person"s intent. When the speaker and listener both interpret a phrase as referring to the same thing. All may be social cues supporting child"s learning. How easy it is to infer the referent from the surrounding environment predics vocab up to 3 years. 19 mo babies can use discourse infor (not 15mo) to learn new words) Once children have identified some grammatical categories. Kids use the strucutre to get word knowledge.
