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An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development. It proposes that children generate, tweak, and radically revise theories, beliefs, and representations by integrating evidence with existing knowledge via probabilistic inferential learning mechanisms.
Rebekah A. Gelpi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Goals Matter: Children's Exploration of Ambiguity is Sensitive to Contextual Value

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Children are voracious explorers. While this tendency is well established by both empirical and everyday evidence, accounts differ on whether exploration is goal‐directed or stimulus‐driven. In the current study, children (3‐ to 6‐year‐olds, n = 72) played with a novel toy that operated according to one of two possible causal rules and were ...
Elizabeth S. Lapidow   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Word Sense Disambiguation tool WoSeDon

open access: yes, 2018
Word sense disambiguation tool using rich, semantic ...
Kaszewski, Dominik   +2 more
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The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
wiley   +1 more source

English address terms in Australian, British and North American English on Twitter/X

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses address terms on Twitter/X across three English‐speaking regions: Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using a random sample, we examine the frequency and regional distribution of address forms, including @‐mentions, vocatives, titles, kinship terms and greetings.
Martin Schweinberger, Amir Sheikhan
wiley   +1 more source

Word Sense Disambiguation

open access: yes, 2007
tion from English to German, needs to translate "bank" as "Ufer" for sense 1a and as "Bank" for sense 1b. An information retrieval system answering a query about "financial banks" should only return documents that ...
The Purpose
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I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
wiley   +1 more source

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