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Seeking Meaning: Incorporating Linguistic Information in Cross-Situational Verb Learning
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Chi-hsin Chen; Yayun Zhang; Chen Yu – Cognitive Science, 2025
Learning the meaning of a verb is challenging because learners need to resolve two types of ambiguity: (1) word-referent mapping--finding the correct referent event of a verb, and (2) word-meaning mapping--inferring the correct meaning of the verb from the referent event (e.g., whether the meaning of an action word is TURNING or TWISTING). The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Ambiguity (Semantics), Adult Students, Linguistic Input