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| dc.contributor | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació |
|---|---|
| dc.contributor | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació |
| dc.contributor | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LARCA - Laboratori d'Algorísmia Relacional, Complexitat i Aprenentatge |
| dc.contributor | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GPLN - Grup de Processament del Llenguatge Natural |
| dc.contributor.author | Casas Fernández, Bernardino |
| dc.contributor.author | Catala Roig, Neus |
| dc.contributor.author | Ferrer Cancho, Ramon |
| dc.contributor.author | Hernández Fernández, Antonio |
| dc.contributor.author | Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume |
| dc.date | 2018-12 |
| dc.identifier.citation | Casas, B. [et al.]. The polysemy of the words that children learn over time. "Interaction studies", Desembre 2018, vol. 19, núm. 3, p. 389-426. |
| dc.identifier.citation | 1572-0373 |
| dc.identifier.citation | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.08807.pdf |
| dc.identifier.citation | 10.1075/is.16036.cas |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/130754 |
| dc.description.abstract | Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learning in children. We employ a massive set of transcriptions of conversations between children and adults in English, to analyze the evolution of mean polysemy in the words produced by children whose ages range between 10 and 60 months. Our results show that mean polysemy in children increases over time in two phases, i.e. a fast growth till the 31st month followed by a slower tendency towards adult speech. In contrast, no dependency with time is found in adults. This may suggest that children have a preference for non-polysemous words in their early stages of vocabulary acquisition. Our hypothesis is twofold: (a) polysemy is a standalone bias or (b) polysemy is a side-effect of other biases. Interestingly, the bias for low polysemy above weakens when controlling by syntactic category (noun, verb, adjective or adverb). The pattern of the evolution of polysemy suggests that both hypotheses may apply to some extent, and that (b) would originate from a combination of the well-known preference for nouns and the lower polysemy of nouns with respect to other syntactic categories. |
| dc.description.abstract | Peer Reviewed |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.relation | https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/is.16036.cas |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
| dc.subject | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica |
| dc.subject | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Aprenentatge de llengües |
| dc.subject | Semantics |
| dc.subject | Linguistics |
| dc.subject | Language acquisition |
| dc.subject | Children--Language |
| dc.subject | Child language evolution |
| dc.subject | Vocabulary learning |
| dc.subject | Learning biases |
| dc.subject | Polysemy |
| dc.subject | CHILDES |
| dc.subject | Quantitative linguistics |
| dc.subject | Semàntica |
| dc.subject | Lingüistica |
| dc.subject | Llenguatge i llengües -- Adquisició |
| dc.subject | Infants -- Llenguatge |
| dc.title | The polysemy of the words that children learn over time |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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