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Modeling the Acquisition of Mental State Verbs

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Abstract

Children acquire mental state verbs (MSVs) much later than other, lower-frequency, words. One factor proposed to contribute to this delay is that children must learn various semantic and syntactic cues that draw attention to the difficult-to-observe mental content of a scene. We develop a novel computational approach that enables us to explore the role of such cues, and show that our model can replicate aspects of the developmental trajectory of MSV acquisition.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationHuman Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012
EditorsDavid Reitter, David Reitter, Roger Levy
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1-10
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)1937284204, 9781937284206
StatePublished - 2012
Event3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 7 Jun 2012 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume2012-June
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference3rd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period7/06/12 → …

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