Katie Fisher, Alison Fielding, Anna Ralston, Elizabeth Holliday, Jean Ball, Michael Tran, Andrew Davey, Amanda Tapley, Parker Magin
Exam prediction and the general Practice Registrar Competency Assessment Grid (GPR-CAG)
Education for primary care : an official publication of the Association of Course Organisers, National Association of GP Tutors, World Organisation of Family Doctors
words essence communication building blocks language learning meaning words thus one important aspects language acquisition children must first learn words combine complex utterances many theories developed explain impressive efficiency young children acquiring vocabulary language well developmental patterns observed course lexical acquisition major source disagreement among different theories whether children equipped special mechanisms biases word learning general cognitive abilities adequate task present novel computational model early word learning shed light mechanisms might work process model learns word meanings probabilistic associations words semantic elements using incremental probabilistic learning mechanism drawing general cognitive abilities results presented demonstrate much word meanings learned naturally occurring childdirected utterances paired meaning representations without using special biases constraints without explicit developmental changes underlying learning mechanism furthermore model provides explanations occasionally contradictory child experimental data offers predictions behavior young word learners novel situations