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COGSCI
2002
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Learning words from sights and sounds: a computational model
This paper presents an implemented computational model of word acquisition which learns directly from raw multimodal sensory input. Set in an information theoretic framework, the ...
Deb Roy, Alex Pentland
COGSCI
2007
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Language Evolution by Iterated Learning With Bayesian Agents
Languages are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation via a process of iterated learning: people learn a language from other people who once learned that la...
Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael L. Kalish
COGSCI
2004
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Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
COGSCI
2010
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A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning
Words are the essence of communication: they are the building blocks of any language. Learning the meaning of words is thus one of the most important aspects of language acquisiti...
Afsaneh Fazly, Afra Alishahi, Suzanne Stevenson
COGSCI
2006
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Idiomatic Syntactic Constructions and Language Learning
This article explores the influence of idiomatic syntactic constructions (i.e., constructions whose phrase structure rules violate the rules that underlie the construction of othe...
Michael P. Kaschak, Jenny R. Saffran