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Publication details [#12820]

Bloom, Paul. 1999. The Role of Semantics in Solving the Bootstrapping Problem. In Jackendoff, Ray S., Paul Bloom and Karen Wynn. Language, Logic, and Concepts. Essays in Memory of John Macnamara. MIT Press. pp. 285–309.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | information processing | semantics1

Annotation

It is argued that children employ semantics to work out the bootstrapping problem, i.e. the hypothesis that non-syntactic information must be processed in order to discover the syntactic properties of a word.