Learning Meaning without Primitives: Typology Predicts Developmental Patterns
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Abstract
Does the cognitive naturalness of concepts affect the acquisitional path of meaning?In this paper, we explore the use of crosslinguistically elicited data to approximate cognitive naturalness, following Gentner and Bowerman's (2009) Typological Prevalence Hypothesis.Using the domain of topological spatial relations as a case study, we show how this kind of data allows us to simulate developmental patterns of order of acquisition and overgeneralization in Dutch.This result suggests that the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis can be computationally operationalized and evaluated, that modeling semantic acquisition without hand-coded semantic primitives is possible, and finally, that crosslinguistic data provides a good source of information to do so.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it