https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/tags/syntactic-bootstrapping/ Recent content in Syntactic Bootstrapping on Schooling Frontier Hugo en Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/teaching-hard-words-flattens-your-sentences/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/teaching-hard-words-flattens-your-sentences/ A team transcribed 990 minutes of speech from 33 teachers and found that what predicted children’s vocabulary growth was not which words they used but how they joined their clauses — and that teachers simplified their syntax precisely when introducing sophisticated words.