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semantic bootstrapping: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

the hypothesis that children use the meanings of words, such as objects and actions, to break into the syntactic categories and structures of their language.

In psycholinguistics, semantic bootstrapping refers to the hypothesis that children use the meanings of words, such as objects and actions, to break into the syntactic categories and structures of their language. This meaning comes from Pinker (1984) in Language learnability and language development.[1]

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  1. Pinker, S. (1984). Language learnability and language development. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674510548

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