Michael C. Frank

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael C. Frank plays a role.

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Frank, Michael C. 2014 Learning words through probabilistic inferences about speakers’ communicative intentions Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 207–230 | Article
How do children learn the meanings of words? This chapter presents a probabilistic, communicative view of word learning that synthesizes insights from work on statistical learning and social learning. By describing the formal characteristics of models, it is possible to differentiate communicative… read more