The social nature of words and word learning

By Nameera Akhtar, Michael Tomasello. 2000

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Maternal correlates of growth in toddler vocabulary production in low-income families. (2005, background): “Previous research suggests that children in their 2nd year of life are very good at using external referential cues, such as pointing, as a means of facilitating word learning ( Akhtar & Tomasello, 2000 ).”
Evidence on the emergence of the brain's default network from 2-week-old to 2-year-old healthy pediatric subjects (2009, background): “Tomasello M, Strosberg R, Akhtar N (1996) Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts.”
Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of mouses in adult speech (2013, background): “Ofcourse,humaninfantsdonotjustdifferfromotheranimalsinthewaythatthey sampletheenvironment:the social environments that they sample and learn from are markedly different as well (Akhtar & Tomasello 2000, Tomasello 2003, 2008).”
How children use input to acquire a lexicon. (2002, background): “According to this view children figure out the meaning of the words they hear to a substantial degree by inferring the speaker’s attentional focus and communicative intent (Akhtar & Tomasello, 2000; Baldwin, 2000).”
The debate over understanding in AI’s large language models (2022, background): “Researchers disagree on the extent to which concepts are domain-specific and innate versus more general-purpose and learned [14, 30, 31, 53, 75, 85], the degree to which concepts are grounded via embodied metaphors [28, 46, 61], are represented in the brain via dynamic, situation-based simulations [”