Children infer the meaning of novel verbs through morphological bootstrapping
Miran Golan,
Malakk Abo Shkara,
Naomi Havron
Abstract:Children are incredibly efficient at detecting and extracting structure from input. Such skills are evident in the efficiency with which children learn language; for example, children in their second year of life already rely on syntactic context to infer the meaning of words, i.e., syntactic bootstrapping. However, the syntactic bootstrapping hypothesis was originally developed using data from English-learning children, and tested mostly on Indo-European languages. Yet, languages vary in how they mark informa… Show more
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