The emergence of richly organized semantic knowledge from simple statistics: A synthetic review

L Unger, AV Fisher - Developmental Review, 2021 - Elsevier
As adults, we draw upon our ample knowledge about the world to support such vital
cognitive feats as using language, reasoning, retrieving knowledge relevant to our current …

Sampling statistics are like story creation: a network analysis of parent–toddler exploratory play

H Karmazyn-Raz, LB Smith - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Actions in the world elicit data for learning and do so in a stream of interconnected events.
Here, we provide evidence on how toddlers with their parent sample information by acting …

Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition

C Wingfield, L Connell - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The distributional pattern of words in language forms the basis of linguistic distributional
knowledge and contributes to conceptual processing, yet many questions remain regarding …

Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters

S Park, AG Esposito - Cognitive Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge integration is a crucial part of learning as concepts are built over time
and modality. In mathematics, rational numbers are a particularly difficult concept that …

No frills: Simple regularities in language can go a long way in the development of word knowledge

L Unger, H Yim, O Savic, S Dennis… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen a flourishing of Natural Language Processing models that can
mimic many aspects of human language fluency. These models harness a simple, decades …

Signatures of cross-modal alignment in children's early concepts

K Aho, BD Roads, BC Love - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Whether supervised or unsupervised, human and machine learning is usually characterized
as event-based. However, learning may also proceed by systems alignment in which …

Learning to Read Connections—Sensitivity to Collocation Frequency Links Vocabulary Size and Reading Comprehension in Middle Childhood

AMA Schmitterer, C Gawrilow… - Reading Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The collocation frequency of words in the language environment contributes to early
vocabulary development. Vocabulary size, in turn, predicts children's reading …

[HTML][HTML] Analogical inference from distributional structure: What recurrent neural networks can tell us about word learning

PA Huebner, JA Willits - Machine Learning with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
One proposal that can explain the remarkable pace of word learning in young children is
that they leverage the language-internal distributional similarity of familiar and novel words …

How statistical correlations influence discourse-level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations.

M Marchal, MCJ Scholman… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Linguistic phenomena (eg, words and syntactic structure) co-occur with a wide variety of
meanings. These systematic correlations can help readers to interpret a text and create …

Developmental changes in the word co-occurrences of Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder

P Shivabasappa, ED Peña… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The study aimed to understand how bilingual children with typical language
development (TLD) and those with developmental language disorder (DLD) use frequent …