Word Learning in Context
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu12910602462021-08-03T06:01:01Z Word Learning in Context Yao, Xin Developmental Psychology Word learning is a difficult problem. On the one hand, young children could learn new words with few positive examples quickly and easily. On the other hand, word learning itself involves many complicated cognitive processes. For example, one needs to map a new label to an object and generalize the new label from one object to the entire category of the object. Some researchers have suggested that word learning involves hypotheses testing: when young children learn new words, they rely on a priori constrains that could help them limit the space of hypotheses. According to this view, the constraints allow young word learners not to consider some of the possible hypotheses; whereas others are ruled out some others are ruled out on the basis of positive examples given to the word learner. Other researchers have further developed this idea. Instead of ruling in or ruling out the hypotheses, young word learners are updating these possibilities by using a Bayesian approach to hypotheses testing. However, the five experiments in the current study suggest that hypotheses testing, including the Bayesian approach, is not necessary. In particular, hypotheses testing could not account for all the reported findings. Instead, semantic word association, which could provide young word learners a certain word-learning context, could also help young children to learn new words. 2010-12-17 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291060246 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291060246 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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