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Language learning from positive evidence, reconsidered : a simplicity-based approach

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Hsu, Anne S., Chater, Nick and Vitányi , Paul M. B. (2013) Language learning from positive evidence, reconsidered : a simplicity-based approach. Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 5 (Number 1). pp. 35-55. doi:10.1111/tops.12005 ISSN 1756-8757.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12005

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Abstract

Children learn their native language by exposure to their linguistic and communicative environment, but apparently without requiring that their mistakes be corrected. Such learning from positive evidence has been viewed as raising logical problems for language acquisition. In particular, without correction, how is the child to recover from conjecturing an over-general grammar, which will be consistent with any sentence that the child hears? There have been many proposals concerning how this logical problem can be dissolved. In this study, we review recent formal results showing that the learner has sufficient data to learn successfully from positive evidence, if it favors the simplest encoding of the linguistic input. Results include the learnability of linguistic prediction, grammaticality judgments, language production, and form-meaning mappings. The simplicity approach can also be scaled down to analyze the learnability of specific linguistic constructions, and it is amenable to empirical testing as a framework for describing human language acquisition.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: Topics in Cognitive Science
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN: 1756-8757
Official Date: January 2013
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January 2013Published
Volume: Volume 5
Number: Number 1
Page Range: pp. 35-55
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12005
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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