AI RESEARCH
Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.12047v1 Announce Type: new Is child-directed language (CDL) optimized to language learning, and which aspects of linguistic development does it facilitate? We investigate this question using neural language models trained on CDL versus adult-directed language (ADL). We selectively remove syntactic or lexical co-occurrence information from the model