Bootstrapping (linguistics)

Bootstrapping (linguistics)

= Language acquisition in children =

Syntactic bootstrapping is the idea that children use syntactic knowledge they have developed to help learn what words mean -- semantics builds on top of syntax.

*Semantic bootstrapping

Bootstrapping of compositional language

[http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~paulv/publications/esslli2003.pdf Iterated learning and grounding: from holistic to compositional languages] written by Paul Vogt. See also an abstract of [http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND1293234/ Project: Transmitting knowledge through the bootstrapping of compositional language] .


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