{"pk":25968,"title":"A Computational Account of Novel Word Generalization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A key challenge faced by children in vocabulary acquisition is learning which of the many possible meanings is\nappropriate for a word. The word generalization problem refers to how children associate a word such as dog with a meaning\nat the appropriate category level in the taxonomy of objects, such as Dalmatians, dogs, or animals. We present extensions to\na cross-situational learner that enable the first computational study of word generalization integrated within a word learning\nmodel. The model simulates child patterns of word generalization due to the interaction of type and token frequencies in the\ninput data, an influence often observed in usage-based approaches to underlie people’s generalization of linguistic categories.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b64n5sg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Aida","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nematzadeh","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Erin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Grant","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""},{"first_name":"Suzanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stevenson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25968/galley/15592/download/"}]}