Learning language from within: Children use semantic generalizations to infer word meanings

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Cognition 159 (C):11-24 (2017)
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Word learning as Bayesian inference.Fei Xu & Joshua B. Tenenbaum - 2007 - Psychological Review 114 (2):245-272.
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