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A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation:corpus analysis and modeling
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Early in acquisition children overgeneralize verbs to ungrammatical structures. The retreat from overgeneralization is linked to the acquisition of verb classes, the semantics of which constrain the structures in which a verb can appear (e.g., Pinker 1989; Ambridge, Pine & Rowland, 2012). How children learn these classes remains unclear. Some argue that distributional regularities in linguistic input provide sufficient evidence for verb classes to emerge and become linked to particular structures. A corpus analysis of the English locative construction (e.g., the woman sprayed water onto the wall/the wall with water) demonstrated that children have similar verb classes to adults. A correspondence analysis revealed that distributional regularities in the input could support these verb classes. Finally, a connectionist simulation was able to model early overgeneralization and retreat through distributional learning of verb classes. These results support a distributional learning account of verb semantics.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/71111/ https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/71111/1/locatives_model_cogsci_revision_final.docx
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Modelling the effects of formal literacy training on language mediated visual attention
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Emotional priming of sentence comprehension: effects of a speaker’s static emotional expression and listener age
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Cross-situational statistical learning of phonologically overlapping words
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Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human Computer Interaction : 8th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2009, Bielefeld, Germany, February 25-27, 2009 Revised Selected Papers
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Gesture in embodied communication and human-computer interaction : 8th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2009, Bielefeld, Germany, February 25 - 27, 2009 ; revised selected papers
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