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Leader-follower dynamics during early social interactions matter for infant word learning. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Goupil L   +5 more
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Word-of-mouth learning [PDF]

open access: possibleGames and Economic Behavior, 2004
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Abhijit Banerjee, Drew Fudenberg
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Empiricist word learning

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001
At first, Bloom's theory appears inimical to empiricism, since he credits very young children with highly sophisticated cognitive resources (e.g., a theory of mind and a belief that real kinds have essences), and he also attacks the empiricist's favoured learning theory, namely, associationism.
Ryder, Dan, Favorov, Oleg V.
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Word learning

2012
AbstractChildren pay special attention to people's intentional cues when learning new words, but it is possible to learn and recognize words in the absence of such cues. Word learning constitutes a “special” problem precisely because words constitute complex collections of properties. A word is a symbol.
Melissa A. Koenig, Amanda Woodward
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Learning to feel words

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, 2018
Recent studies have shown that decomposing spoken or written language into phonemes and transcribing each phoneme into a unique vibrotactile pattern enables people to receive lexical messages on the arm. A potential barrier to adopting this new communication system is the time and effort required to learn the association between phonemes and ...
Jennifer Chen   +5 more
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Intentionality and word learning

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1997
Humans intuitively think about the actions of others in terms of mental states eliefs, desires, emotions and intentions. This 'theory of mind' plays a central role in how children learn the meanings of certain words. First, it underlies how they determine the reference of a novel word. When children hear a new object name (e.g.
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Word Learning and Word Acquisition

2014
The chapter illustrates evidence on word learning and word acquisition which supports the WAT proposal. First, we outline approaches that emphasize the importance of social aspects; then, we turn to embodied approaches highlighting the role of perception and action in word acquisition.
Anna M. Borghi, Ferdinand Binkofski
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The Intentionality of Word Learning: How to Learn a Word, Any Word

2000
Children learn language to share their beliefs, desires, and feelings through acts of expression and to share the contents of minds of other persons through acts of interpretation. Intentionality is central, therefore, for language and for acquiring language.
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