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learning colour words is slow: a cross-situational learning account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

paul vogt and
andrew d. m. smith
paul vogt
Affiliation:
language evolution and computation research unit, school of philosophy, psychology, and language sciences, university of edinburgh, edinburgh eh8 9ll, united kingdom paulv@ling.ed.ac.uk andrew@ling.ed.ac.uk http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~paulv http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~andrewinduction of linguistic knowledge, computational linguistics, tilburg university, 5000 le tilburg, the netherlands
andrew d. m. smith
Affiliation:
language evolution and computation research unit, school of philosophy, psychology, and language sciences, university of edinburgh, edinburgh eh8 9ll, united kingdom paulv@ling.ed.ac.uk andrew@ling.ed.ac.uk http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~paulv http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~andrew
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research into child language reveals that it takes a long time for children to learn the correct mapping of colour words. steels & belpaeme's (s&b's) guessing game, however, models fast learning of words. we discuss computational studies based on cross-situational learning, which yield results that are more consistent with the empirical child language data than those obtained by s&b.

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Type
open peer commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005, pp. 509 - 510
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press