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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: The case of anaphoric one |
Author: | Foraker, S. Regier, T. Khetarpal, N. Perfors, A. Tenenbaum, J. |
Citation: | Cognitive Science, 2009; 33(2):287-300 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science Inc |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
ISSN: | 0364-0213 1551-6709 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stephani Foraker, Terry Regier, Naveen Khetarpal, Amy Perfors and Joshua Tenenbaum |
Abstract: | It is widely held that children’s linguistic input underdetermines the correct grammar, and that language learning must therefore be guided by innate linguistic constraints. Here, we show that a Bayesian model can learn a standard poverty-of-stimulus example, anaphoric one, from realistic input by relying on indirect evidence, without a linguistic constraint assumed to be necessary. Our demonstration does, however, assume other linguistic knowledge; thus, we reduce the problem of learning anaphoric one to that of learning this other knowledge. We discuss whether this other knowledge may itself be acquired without linguistic constraints. |
Keywords: | Language acquisition Poverty of the stimulus Indirect evidence Bayesian learning Syntax Anaphora |
Rights: | Copyright (c) 2009 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. (c) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01014.x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01014.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Psychology publications |
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