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Syntactic Bootstrapping

Syntactic Bootstrapping is a psycholinguistic theory positing that children acquire semantic knowledge of words by leveraging syntactic cues within grammatical structures, distinguishing it from other word-learning theories by emphasizing the role of syntactic category and sentence position in inferring word meanings.

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Children use syntax to learn verb meanings

Letitia Naigles · Journal of Child Language · 1990 · 884 citations

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Hard Words

Lila R. Gleitman, Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Rebecca Nappa et al. · Language Learning and Development · 2005 · 467 citations

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Why are some verbs learned before other verbs? Effects of input frequency and structure on children's early verb use

Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff‐Ginsberg · Journal of Child Language · 1998 · 404 citations

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CakeML

Ramana Kumar, Magnus O. Myreen, Michael Norrish et al. · 2014 · 320 citations

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The use of multiple frames in verb learning via syntactic bootstrapping

Letitia Naigles · Cognition · 1996 · 248 citations · Full text

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Authors

118

  1. LN
    Letitia Naigles

    University of Connecticut, United States

    8 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. JL
    Jeffrey Lidz

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    6 publications · 423 citations

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  3. AC
    Anne Christophe

    Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, France

    5 publications · 238 citations

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  4. LB
    Laurence B. Leonard

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    4 publications · 130 citations

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  5. LM
    Lisa M. Bedore

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    3 publications · 118 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    1.8K citations

  2. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    483 citations

  3. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    1K citations

  4. École Normale Supérieure - PSL

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    613 citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    254 citations

  6. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    521 citations

  7. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    122 citations

  8. University of Connecticut

    Storrs, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    664 citations

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  1. Language Learning and Development

    5 publications · 186 citations

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  2. Journal of Child Language

    4 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. Cognition

    3 publications · 452 citations

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  4. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

    JSLHR · 3 publications · 261 citations

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  5. Developmental Psychology

    3 publications · 214 citations

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