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Sorry for the slow response. Our model is - we think - an advance because it actually allows us to infer the amount of shared structure between different words. This is an index of…

Very cool! All our code is at http://github.com/langcog/wordbank and you can access the database directly using the wordbankr R package (on cran). A paper doing something similar t…

Original researcher here. For context, people are not arguing that nothing is learned, but instead that children come innately prepared with abstract categories of "noun" and "dete…

Yes, thanks for your interest - we only have 50 concurrent users licensed. Never thought we'd get this much interest. :)

Hi, original researcher here - these forms have different words and different numbers of items, so it's complicated to compare absolute proportions across languages. I wouldn't inf…