{"pk":26177,"title":"The role of word-word co-occurrence in word meaning learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A growing body of research on early word learning suggeststhat learners gather word-object co-occurrence statistics acrosslearning situations. Here we test a new mechanism wherebylearners are also sensitive to word-word co-occurrence statis-tics. Indeed, we find that participants can infer the likely ref-erent of a novel word based on its co-occurrence with otherwords, in a way that mimics a machine learning algorithmdubbed ‘zero-shot learning’. We suggest that the interactionbetween referential and distributional regularities can bring ro-bustness to the process of word acquisition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"word learning; semantics; cross-situational learn-ing; distributional semantic models; zero-shot learning."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gp5v09b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Abdellah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fourtassi","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes, Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Emmanuel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dupoux","name_suffix":"","institution":"PSL Research University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26177/galley/15813/download/"}]}