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Decisions, Decisions: Infant Language Learning when Multiple Generalizations Are Possible

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Journal Cognition
Publisher Elsevier
Specialty Psychology
Date 2005 Jul 5
PMID 15992791
Citations 56
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Abstract

Two experiments presented infants with artificial language input in which at least two generalizations were logically possible. The results demonstrate that infants made one of the two generalizations tested, the one that was most statistically consistent with the particular subset of the data they received. The experiments shed light on how learners might go about solving the induction problem for human language.

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