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The role of syntactic and discourse information in verb learning
Children use syntax in verb learning; this is syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990; Naigles, 1990). This dissertation proposal investigates two research questions about syntactic bootstrapping: 1) how syntactic bootstrapping could begin, and 2) how syntactic bootstrapping could work despite …
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Integrating Sentence-Structural and Event Information in Early Verb Learning
… events to learn verb meanings. This is known as syntactic bootstrapping. This dissertation investigated the origins and mechanisms of syntactic bootstrapping. Prior evidence suggested that two-year-olds, but not younger children, could use aspects of sentence structure to assign different …
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Argument Realization in Thai
… discourse coherence. Hence, in addition to syntactic bootstrapping, discourse context may be used as another cue in acquiring verbs.
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Bayesian modeling of manner and path psychological data
… aid word learning. Other hypothesized aids are syntactic bootstrapping, in which the learner assumes that the meaning of a novel word is similar to that of other words used in a similar syntax, and its complement, semantic bootstrapping, in which the learner assumes that the syntax of a novel …
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Multi-level models of language comprehension in the mind and brain
… of the thesis explores the computational role of syntactic and semantic representations in language acquisition and use. I instantiate a theory of syntactic bootstrapping, demonstrating through computational simulations how correspondences between the syntactic behaviors of words and their …
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Syntactic adaptation and word learning across contexts and development
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01