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Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An.. - Smith (Correct)
.... of lexical items, it has been demonstrated experimentally that children are biased against acquiring synonyms (one to many mappings from meanings to words) 12] and there is some evidence that children are biased against acquiring homonyms (many to one mappings) at least cross categorially [10]. Finally, most theories of the acquisition of syntax presuppose a bias against acquiring one to many mappings from meanings to syntactic structures (e.g the Uniqueness principle [20] It has also been argued that a bias against many to one mappings from meanings to syntactic constructions can ....
J. Macnamara. Names for things: a study of human learning. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982.
Learning Nouns and Adjectives: A Connectionist Account - Gasser, Smith (Correct)
....is in terms of category learning. Why are common noun categories more easily learned than common adjective categories Several proposals have been offered suggesting a foundational conceptual distinction between objects and their attributes. For example, Gentner (1978) Maratsos (1988) and Macnamara (1982) have all suggested that nouns are logically prior. They point out that predicates presuppose arguments but that the reverse is not true. The suggestion, then, is that children need not understand shaggy to figure out what dog means from examples like the dog is shaggy but must know dog to figure ....
Macnamara, J. (1982). Names for Things: A Study of Human Learning. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Developing Relations - Gasser, Colunga, Smith (Correct)
....Boroditsky (in press) for reviews and discussion) Indeed, for a long time, object names were considered privileged at the start of word learning. Certainly common nouns dominate in English speaking children s early vocabularies; relational terms (verbs and spatial terms) are rare (Gentner, 1982; Macnamara, 1982; Nelson, 1973) The universality of the noun advantage across languages is currently under attack (Bloom et al. 1993; Tardif, 1996; Gopnik Choi, 1995) In particular, it has been suggested that in certain languages such as Korean (Gopnik Choi, 1995) and Mandarin (Tardif, 1996) verbs are as ....
Macnamara, J. (1982). Names for things: A study of human learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Comparison, Categorization, and Perceptual Dimensions: A.. - Michael Gasser (Correct)
....children in the late preschool period to selectively attend to single dimensions. One possible criticism of our experiments is the sequencing that we imposed on the learning. The network was trained on categorization and only then given the comparison task. This order fits the developmental facts [Mac82]. Nonetheless, determining whether (and how) our results depend on the sequencing of training will be an important aspect of future research. This research makes three contributions. First, it provides a model of one of the major trends in human development, from wholistic object comparison to ....
J. Macnamara. Names for Things: A Study of Human Learning. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982.
Quantity Judgments and Individuation: Evidence That Mass.. - David Barner Jesse (2004) (Correct)
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Macnamara, J. (1982). Names for things: A study of human learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Learning and the Emergence of Coordinated Communication - Oliphant, Batali (1997) (10 citations) (Correct)
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John Macnamara. Names for Things: A Study of Human Learning. MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1982.
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