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Comparing MOSAIC and the variational learning model of the optional infinitive stage in early child language
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On the Utility of Conjoint and Compositional Frames and Utterance
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Understanding the Developmental Dynamics of Subject Omission: The Role of Processing Limitations in Learning
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Simulating the Noun-Verb Asymmetry in the Productivity of Children’s Speech
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Linking working memory and long-term memory: A computational model of the learning of new words
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Jones, G; Gobet, F; Pine, J M. - : Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2007
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Modelling the Development of Children’s use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English using MOSAIC
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Unifying cross-linguistic and within-language patterns of finiteness marking in MOSAIC
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Simulating the cross-linguistic development of optional infinitive errors in MOSAIC.
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Simulating optional infinitive errors in child speech through the omission of sentence-internal elements.
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Resolving ambiguities in the extraction of syntactic categories through chunking.
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Simulating the temporal reference of Dutch and English Root Infinitives.
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Modelling syntactic development in a cross-linguistic context
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Abstract:
Mainstream linguistic theory has traditionally assumed that children come into the world with rich innate knowledge about language and grammar. More recently, computational work using distributional algorithms has shown that the information contained in the input is much richer than proposed by the nativist approach. However, neither of these approaches has been developed to the point of providing detailed and quantitative predictions about the developmental data. In this paper, we champion a third approach, in which computational models learn from naturalistic input and produce utterances that can be directly compared with the utterances of language-learning children. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by showing how MOSAIC, a simple distributional analyser, simulates the optional-infinitive phenomenon in English, Dutch, and Spanish. The model accounts for young children's tendency to use both correct finites and incorrect (optional) infinitives in finite contexts, for the generality of this phenomenon across languages, and for the sparseness of other types of errors (e.g., word order errors). It thus shows how these phenomena, which have traditionally been taken as evidence for innate knowledge of Universal Grammar, can be explained in terms of a simple distributional analysis of the language to which children are exposed.
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Keyword:
computational modelling; distributional analyser; Dutch; English; innate knowledge; MOSAIC; optional-infinitive; Spanish; Universal Grammar; word order errors
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URL: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/777
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The role of input size and generativity in simulating language acquisition.
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Modelling children's negation errors using probabilistic learning in MOSAIC.
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Modelling the development of Dutch Optional Infinitives in MOSAIC.
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Subject omission in children's language; The case for performance limitations in learning.
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Modeling the optional infinite stage in MOSAIC: A generalization to Dutch
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