Word Learning Bias is a cognitive constraint in language acquisition that guides children to assign meanings to new words based on assumptions such as mutual exclusivity, whole-object reference, or taxonomic categorization, thereby structuring the interpretation of novel word-referent mappings during semantic development.
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Learning biases predict a word order universal
Jennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky, Géraldine Légendre · Cognition · 2011 · 237 citations
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University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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Université Paris Cité
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University of Iowa
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Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception
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Kent State University
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