Bootstrapping (linguistics)
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[edit] Language acquisition in children
Syntactic bootstrapping is the idea that children use syntactic knowledge they have developed to help learn what words mean -- semantics builds on top of syntax.
[edit] Bootstrapping of compositional language
Iterated learning and grounding: from holistic to compositional languages written by Paul Vogt. See also an abstract of Project: Transmitting knowledge through the bootstrapping of compositional language.
