Two pathways in vocabulary development: Large-scale differences in noun and verb semantic structure

JB Kueser, S Horvath, A Borovsky - Cognitive psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
In adults, nouns and verbs have varied and multilevel semantic interrelationships. In
children, evidence suggests that nouns and verbs also have semantic interrelationships …

Success and failure of compositional generalisation in distributional models of language

S Mao, P Huebner, J Willits - Language, Cognition and …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Are distributional learning mechanisms capable of complex linguistic inferences requiring
compositional generalisation? This question has become contentious with the development …

More is sometimes less: verb learning by school-aged l2 learners

CF Hu - Language Learning and Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines how two aspects of linguistic context, semantic richness and object
novelty, impact verb-action map**. Third-grade Mandarin-speaking children (N= 222) …

Distributional graph: Connecting language towards a representation of knowledge and meaning

S Mao - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
What is the nature of the relationship between Knowledge and Language How does
knowledge representation interact with language use? The critical role of world knowledge …