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Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping

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Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. But how do they learn which contexts are linked to which semantic features in the first place? We investigate if 3- to 4-year-old children (n = 60) can learn about a syntactic context from tracking its use with only a few familiar words. After watching a 5-min training video in which a novel function word (i.e., ‘ko’) replaced either personal pronouns or articles, children were able to infer semantic properties for novel words co-occurring with the newly learned function word (i.e., objects vs. actions). These findings implicate a mechanism by which a distributional analysis, associated with a small vocabulary of known words, could be sufficient to identify some properties associated with specific syntactic contexts.
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hal-02951541 , version 1 (10-03-2023)

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Mireille Babineau, Alex A de Carvalho, John Trueswell, Anne Christophe. Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping. Developmental Science, 2020, 24 (1), pp.e13010. ⟨10.1111/desc.13010⟩. ⟨hal-02951541⟩
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