Relating Activity Contexts to Early Word Learning in Dense Longitudinal Data

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 935-940

  Roy, Brandon C ^a   Frank, Michael C ^b   Roy, Deb ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; non linguistic context; topic modeling; word learning

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

ACTIVITY CONTEXTS; ACTIVITY STRUCTURE; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LONGITUDINAL DATA; NATURAL STRUCTURES; NON-LINGUISTIC CONTEXT; PROBABILISTIC TOPIC MODELS; TOPIC MODELING; WORD LEARNING; YOUNG CHILDREN;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 85123390286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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