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    January 13, 2020

    Department of Psychology: Dr Tessa Charlesworth, "A word is characterized by the company it keeps": Using word embeddings to uncover social beliefs in child and adult language

    Social beliefs are known to be reflected in the language of children and adults. But how can they be quantitatively studied to understand the relative strength of social beliefs across language from different sources (e.g., books vs. speech), different speakers (e.g., children vs. adults), and…

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