LD_W8

Which of the following strategies do children use for word learning?

• collect statistics on the relationship between words and objects

• generalize to other objects with same property (color, texture)

• generalize to other objects with same shape

• assume that a new word refers to what the speaker is pointing at

• pay attention to the sentence structure where the word is used

Nouns are easier to learn than verbs because:

• verbs can differ depending which perspective you take

• verbs refer to actions that are always the same

• verbs differ more across languages than nouns do

• action boundaries (e.g. throw) are less clear than object boundaries (e.g. table)

A “classical” feature is a feature that an entity typically has to be a member of a category

• True

• False

A “prototype” is an entity in a category that has more probablistic features than other member entities

• True

• False

An example of “overextension” is:

• “book” for books, magazines, atlases

• “book” for Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment

A “cognate” is a word that sounds and means the same in two languages.

• True

• False

The average 1-year-old knows 50 words.

• True

• False

The average 6-year-old knows 14000 words.

• True

• False

Children are very similar at young ages (1-3 years) in how many words they know and how quickly they learn new words

• True

• False

All one-year-old English-speaking children can say "woof woof"

• True

• False