Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: In typical development, word learning goes from slow and laborious to fast and seemingly effortless.Typically developing 2-year-olds are so skilled at learning noun categories that they seem to intuit the whole range of things in the category from hearing a single instance named -they are biased learners.This is not the case for children below the 20th percentile on productive vocabulary (late talkers).This paper looks at the individual vocabularies and word-learning biases of late-and early-talking toddlers.Experiment 1 shows that neural networks trained on the vocabularies of individual late talkers learn qualitatively different biases than those trained on early talker vocabularies.Experiment 2 confirms the novel predictions made by the simulations about word learning biases in late-vs.early-talking children.The implications for diagnosis and intervention are discussed.
Authors: Eliana Colunga, Clare E. Sims
Institution: University of Colorado Boulder
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2407681734