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Definition of Semantic Bootstrapping

  • Pinker, S. (1987). The bootstrapping problem in language acquisition. Mechanisms of language acquisition, 399-441.
  • Kirby, S. (2009). Semantic scaffolding in first language acquisition: The acquisition of raising-to-object and object control. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL.

Experiments that proves Semantic Bootstrapping

  • Kirby, S. (2010). Passives in first language acquisition: What causes the delay?. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 16(1), 13.

Limits of Semantic Bootstrapping

  • Gleitman, L. (1990). The structural sources of verb meanings. Language acquisition, 1(1), 3-55.