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Models of cross-situational word learning typically characterize the learner as a passive observer, but a language learning child can actively participate in verbal and non-verbal communication. We present a computational study of cross-situational word learning to investigate whether a curious word learner who actively influences linguistic input...
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Cognitive models of child word learning in general, and cross-situational models in particular, characterize the learner as a passive observer. But children are curious and actively participate in verbal and non-verbal communication, and often introduce new topics which parents are likely to follow up (Bloom et al., 1996). We investigate the potent...