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SUBMITTER: Ponari M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015818 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ponari Marta M Norbury Courtenay Frazier CF Rotaru Armand A Lenci Alessandro A Vigliocco Gabriella G
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20180801 1752
Some explanations of abstract word learning suggest that these words are learnt primarily from the linguistic input, using statistical co-occurrences of words in language, whereas concrete words can also rely on non-linguistic, experiential information. According to this hypothesis, we expect that, if the learner is not able to fully exploit the information in the linguistic input, abstract words should be affected more than concrete ones. Embodied approaches instead argue that both abstract and ...[more]