Word learning in children: an examination of fast mapping.

By Tracy H. Heibeck, Ellen M. Markman. 1987

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Multimodal Few-Shot Learning with Frozen Language Models (2021, background): “answering questions such as ‘When did the French Revolution begin?’) [34, 1, 28] and to use new words in appropriate ways straight after being taught what those words mean (sometimes referred to as ‘fast binding’) [12, 4].”
Learning Like a Child: Fast Novel Visual Concept Learning from Sentence Descriptions of Images (2015, background): “In particular, it is known that children can form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of new words in a sentence based on their knowledge of previous learned words [5, 21], associate these words to the objects or their properties, and describe novel concepts using sentences with the new wor”
Word learning as Bayesian inference. (2007, background): “Furthermore, Heibeck and Markman (1987) showed that the ability to use linguistic contrast to infer word meanings applied to other semantic domains such as shape and texture.”
Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models. (2007, background): “Given a single exemplar of a novel object category, children extend the category label to similarly shaped objects ahead of objects that share the same texture or color as the exemplar ( Heibeck & Markman, 1987; Landau, Smith & Jones, 1988).”
Bayesian models of cognition (2008, background): “For instance, 30-month-old children display a shape bias : they appear to know that the objects in any given category tend to have the same shape, even if they diﬀer along other dimensions, such as color and texture (Heibeck & Markman, 1987; Smith, Jones, Landau, Gershkoﬀ-Stowe, & Samuelson, 2002).”
Children acquire emotion categories gradually (2008, background): “The ‘fast mapping’ notion in acquisition of word meaning implies that even if not all-or-none, acquisition is fast (e.g., Dollaghan, 1985; Heibeck & Markman, 1987; Rice, 1990).”
Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative (2014, unknown): “Studies have shown that they can accurately infer and remember the meanings of novel words on the basis of a single exposure (e.g. Carey and Bartlett (1978), Heibeck and Markman (1987), Spiegel and Halberda (2011)).”
Fast Mapping but Poor Retention by 24-Month-Old Infants. (2008, background): “Other studies that have included long delays between referent selection and test have used familiar event sequences to introduce the novel name (e.g., setting up for snack time; Carey & Bartlett, 1978; Heibeck & Markman, 1987 ).”
VIMA: General Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts (2022, background): “This ability is also referred to as fast-mapping (Heibeck & Markman, 1987).”
The effect of probabilistic phonotactics on lexical acquisition (2000, background): “Likewise, children between pre-school and sixth grade can associate the phonological form of the novel word with the referent following one exposure (Dickinson, 1984; Dollaghan, 1985; 1987; Heibeck and Markman, 1987).”
Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition as Well as in Language (2005, methodology): “Given a contrast task that makes learning additional category terms easy (Carey & Bartlett, 1978; Heibeck & Markman, 1987), 2-year-old children who knew no color names but hundreds of other names took on average 800 trials simply to respond “red” to red objects and “green” to green objects (Rice,…”
Vocabulary and Readability: How Knowing Word Meanings Affects Comprehension. (2003, background): “Evidence for at least informal definitional knowledge comes from both the persistence of the definitional assumption and from studies of “fast mapping” in children’s word learning (Heibeck & Markman, 1987; Rice, Buhr, & Nemeth, 1990).”
The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing (2020, unknown): “If we construe model training as analogous to learning in human development, then human cortex might already provide a sufficiently rich structure that allows for the relatively rapid acquisition of language (Carey & Bartlett, 1978; Dickinson, 1984; Heibeck & Markman, 1987).”
The importance of shape in early lexical learning (1988, background): “1976) and label learning (Bomstein, 1985; Heibeck & Markman, 1987; Au & Markman, 1987; Clark, 1973). shape appears to be the primary determinant of response choices.”
Is this a wampimuk? Cross-modal mapping between distributional semantics and the visual world (2014, background): “…a core function of language that humans are highly optimized for it, as shown by the so-called fast mapping phenomenon, whereby children can learn to associate a word to an object or property by a single exposure to it (Bloom, 2000; Carey, 1978; Carey and Bartlett, 1978; Heibeck and Markman, 1987).”