Monaghan, Padraic and Mattock, Karen (2012) Integrating constraints for learning word-referent mappings. Cognition, 123 (1). pp. 133-143. ISSN 0010-0277
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Learning word-referent mappings is complex because the word and its referent tend to co-occur with multiple other words and potential referents. Such complexity has led to proposals for a host of constraints on learning, though how these constraints may interact has not yet been investigated in detail. In this paper, we investigated interactions between word co-occurrence constraints and cross-situational statistics in word learning. Analyses of child-directed speech revealed that when both object-referring and non-referring words occurred in the utterance, referring words were more likely to be preceded by a determiner than when the utterance contained only referring words. In a word learning study containing both referring and non-referring words, learning was facilitated when non-referring words contributed grammatical constraints analogous to determiners. The complexity of multi-word utterances provides an opportunity for co-occurrence constraints to contribute to word-referent mapping, and the learning mechanism is able to integrate these multiple sources of information.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition |
| Additional Information: | Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Word learning ; Cross-situational learning ; Child-directed speech ; Distributional information ; Multiple cue integration ; Corpus analysis |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology |
| ID Code: | 52790 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 22 Feb 2012 11:22 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 20:09 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/52790 |
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