Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms

By N. Soja, Susan Carey, Elizabeth S. Spelke. 1991

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

Citations in the corpus

• “I’m sorry to hear that”: Finding New Biases in Language Models with a Holistic Descriptor Dataset (2022, neutral): “Finally, we also included a small set of “nonce” terms (Soja et al., 1991), which are novel, phonologically well-formed terms with no associated lex-”
• Few-Shot Learning with Metric-Agnostic Conditional Embeddings (2018, neutral): “…networks, share a bias to classify based on shape (Landau et al., 1988; Ritter et al., 2017), we can also recognize the potential that some classifications would require a re-weighting of attribute importance as in the classification of non-solids where shape is less important (Soja et al., 1991).”
• Naming in young children: a dumb attentional mechanism? (1996, unknown): “…attend to other specific properties (texture, color) when the named object has eyes (Jones et al., 1991; Landau et al., 1994) or is not rigid (e.g., Soja et al., 1991; Soja, 1992), or when the novel word is presented in a mass noun or adjectival frame (Soja, 1992; Smith et al., 1992; Landau et…”
• "I'm sorry to hear that": finding bias in language models with a holistic descriptor dataset (2022, unknown): “Nonce terms, words which do not yet exist and are nonsensical by design, are from Soja et al. (1991), and are included as a baseline to gauge model behavior in response to descriptor terms known to be out-of-vocabulary.”
• Countability distinctions and semantic variation (2017, unknown): “If no language completely lacks countability distinctions, why should this be? The answer may lie in the particular path that child learners follow in acquiring noun meanings, an early stage of which ignores language-particular evidence about countability in favor of conceptual distinctions between ”
• Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation (2010, unknown): “In fact, Soja et al. (1991) argue that 2 year old children in inducing the meaning of new words crucially exploit the categories in (1).”
• Toxicity in Multilingual Machine Translation at Scale (2022, unknown): “All human evaluators in this paper were selected among our colleagues, who were well aware of the level and types of toxicities that they would be asked to annotate in our evaluation task. axis: blicket, stad, mell, coodle, doff, tannin, fitch, and tulver (Soja et al., 1991).”
• Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English (2006, unknown): “The method, following Lucy (1992b) and Soja, Carey, and Spelke (1991), is a fixedchoice triad test.”
• Infants Determine Others' Focus of Attention by Pragmatics and Exclusion (2006, unknown): “In these studies, we replicated the findings of Tomasello and Haberl (2003) using a different response measure (looking and acting on an object instead of handing an object over), and we extended their findings to situations in which the adult is attending to two different things within the same obj”