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New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoThat's interesting, but what comes to mind is that it cannot be just about finding word/object pairings as both word and object boundaries have to be learned as well. They are not distinct entities to start with, and I think reducing them to distinct entities in data mining models is a very limiting (but maybe necessary?) factor. Quine's "Word and Object" is an interesting treatment of this subject. I wonder how recent neuro and behavioural science relates to what he had to say.