“…The proof-of-concept approach can model how in practice some linguistic outcome can be learnt, offering support for these types of hypotheses. This approach has been one of the most fruitful in recent years and has been used to support multiple hypotheses about the learnability of : the shape bias (Ohmer, Marino, König, & Franke, 2021), basic syntactic dependencies (Huebner et al, 2021), syntactic and semantic categories (Wang, Vong, Kim, & Lake, 2023), associative word learning strategies (Vong & Lake, 2022), words from sustained attention (Tsutsui, Chandrasekaran, Reza, Crandall, & Yu, 2020), and logical reasoning words (Portelance, Frank, & Jurafsky, 2023).…”