Why verbs are hard to learn

By Dedre Gentner. 2006

216 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d66dc53cd279e5749344b648af321e9c56910351

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Afra Alishahi
2. Suzanne Stevenson
3. William Schuler
4. Afsaneh Fazly
5. Lifeng Jin
6. David L. Chen

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Afra Alishahi
2. William Schuler
3. Lifeng Jin
4. Yonatan Belinkov

Citations in the corpus

• Grounded PCFG Induction with Images (2020, background): “This hypothesis is termed ‘noun bias’ in language acquisition (Gentner, 1982, 2006; Waxman et al., 2013), through which the early acquisition of nouns is attributed to nouns referring to observable objects.”
• A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning (2010, background): “It has been shown that children tend to learn nouns (more specifically, object names) before verbs, and concrete words before abstract ones (Gentner, 2006).”