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    "pk": 26995,
    "title": "The Semantic Spaces of Child-Directed Speech, Child Speech and Adult-directed\nSpeech: a Manifold Perspective",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Child-directed speech (CDS) is a talking style adopted by\ncaregivers when they talk to toddlers (Snow, 1995). We\nconsider the role of distributional semantic features of CDS\nin language acquisition. We view semantic structure as a\nmanifold on which words lie. We compare the semantic\nstructure of verbs in CDS to the semantic structure of child\nspeech (CS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) by measuring\nhow easy it is to align the manifolds. We find that it is easier\nto align verbs in CS to CDS than to align CS to ADS,\nsuggesting that the semantic structure of CDS is reflected in\nchild productions. We also find, by measuring verbs vertex\ndegrees in a semantic graph, that a mixed initialized set of\nverbs with high degrees and medium degrees has the best\nperformance among all alignments, suggesting that both\nsemantic generality and diversity may be important for\ndeveloping semantic representations.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "child-directed speech; lexical development;\nmanifold learning; distributional semantics; graph theory"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gm536zf",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Hao",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sun",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University at Buffalo",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Pate",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University at Buffalo",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}