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    "pk": 50112,
    "title": "Are Global Statistics Discarded Statistics? An Investigation of What Types of  Co-Occurrence Statistics Could Support the Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge",
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    "abstract": "Much research examining the development of semantic knowledge has focused on patterns of co-occurrence in language. An often-made distinction concerns ‘local' co-occurrences (word pairs that appear close together) and ‘global' co-occurrences (word pairs that appear in similar linguistic contexts), with some recent accounts arguing that only local co-occurrences are exploitable by young children. We tested the alternative view that this dichotomy may be misaligned with natural language input. First, we performed a descriptive analysis of the co-occurrence structure present in the input. This analysis suggests that global co-occurrences are frequent in the input to children. Second, we performed a descriptive analysis of the semantic information encoded by local and global statistics in the CHILDES corpus; this analysis suggests that both local and global co-occurrences encode patterns of similarity that could support the acquisition of structured semantic representations.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Development; Language acquisition; Semantics of language; Statistical learning; Corpus studies"
        }
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    "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16v77798",
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        {
            "first_name": "Molly",
            "middle_name": "I",
            "last_name": "Niehaus",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tijana",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Slepcev",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Catarina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vales",
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            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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