In describing how people generalize from observed samples of data to novel cases, theories of inductive inference have emphasized the learner's reliance on the contents of the sample. More recently, a growing body of literature suggests that …
Points out that people make opposing inferences in categorisation and generalisation tasks, and suggests that it is because of different assumptions about how items are sampled.
Presents a model of verb construction acquisition and demonstrates the general principles it uses to resolve the logical problem of language acquisition.