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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"child language acquisition"”.
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Towards the Development of an IsiXhosa Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
… Inventory (CDI) into Southern African languages. 1 The adaptation stems from the growing dissatisfaction regarding the dearth of speech and language assessments and therapeutic tools currently available in South Africa for isiXhosa or other local languages (Pascoe and Smouse, 2012; …
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Grounded semantic parsing using captioned videos
… and far more similar to the experience of children where they observe their environment and listen to speakers. The semantic parser recovers the meaning of English sentences despite not having access to any annotated sentences and despite the ambiguity inherent in vision where a sentence …
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Learning Language with Multimodal Models
Language acquisition by children and machines is remarkable. Yet while children learn from hearing a relatively modest amount of language and by interacting with people and the environment around them, neural language models require far more data and supervision, struggle with generalizing to new …
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The role of Question-Answer Congruence (QAC) in child language and adult sentence processing
… (QAC, von Stechow 1990, Rooth 1985, 1992) in child language acquisition and adult sentence processing. Specifically, I present two case studies: sentences with "only" and sentences with the Rise-Fall-Rise contour (RFR, Jackendoff 1972). Case study 1 investigates a long-standing puzzle …
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Linguistic and Cognitive Development of L2 Writing during an Intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Programme.
… and cognitive characteristics of second language learners' writing change over the course of a one-month intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) summer programme at a British university. A mixed methods approach was used in the study in order to obtain a more nuanced picture of the …
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Phonological Representations in Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are the dominant tools for processing and generating natural language, typically operating over an input representation consisting of discrete subword tokens derived from web-scraped orthographic text. Understanding and interpreting these models is crucial not only for …
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Stop production in Spanish-English bilingual children
… t, k, b, d, g]) are relatively early sounds in children’s acquisition and have specific features that can be measured and compared crosslinguistically. Spanish voiceless stops have shorter voice onset time values than English voiceless stops, and Spanish voiced stops vary allophonically to …