How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words
Nature Human Behavior, 2021. [All Versions]. Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their social environment, including their current state of…
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AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Communications > Pragmatics: “Nature Human Behavior, 2021. [All Versions]. Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their social environment, including their current state of…”