mcfrank

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   by mcfrank 10y ago

   Sorry for the slow response. Our model is - we think - an advance because it actually allows us to infer the amount of shared structure between different words. This is an index of how much generalization the child is doing. If they do no g
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   by mcfrank 10y ago

   Very cool! All our code is at http://github.com/langcog/wordbank and you can access the database directly using the wordbankr R package (on cran). A paper doing something similar to what you describe is in prep, with a
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   by mcfrank 10y ago

   Original researcher here. For context, people are not arguing that nothing is learned, but instead that children come innately prepared with abstract categories of "noun" and "determiner" even if they don't know w
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   by mcfrank 10y ago

   Yes, thanks for your interest - we only have 50 concurrent users licensed. Never thought we'd get this much interest. :)
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   by mcfrank 10y ago

   Hi, original researcher here - these forms have different words and different numbers of items, so it's complicated to compare absolute proportions across languages. I wouldn't infer that there are differences between populations