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Peer reviewedGaser, Michael; Smith, Linda B. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Proposes an alternative account of the child's learning of nouns and adjectives that relies on properties of the semantic categories to be learned and of the word-learning task itself. In five experiments, a simple connectionist network was trained to label input objects in particular contexts; the network learned categories resembling nouns…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
