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dc.contributor.author | Perfors, A. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Tenenbaum, J. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Regier, T. | en |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006) / R. Sun and N. Miyake (eds.), 26-29 July, 2006; pp.663-668 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0976831821 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/65718 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The Poverty of the Stimulus (PoS) argument holds that children do not receive enough evidence to infer the exis-tence of core aspects of language, such as the dependence of linguistic rules on hierarchical phrase structure. We reevaluate one version of this argument with a Bayesian model of grammar induction, and show that a rational learner without any initial language-speci¯c biases could learn this dependency given typical child-directed input. This choice enables the learner to master aspects of syn-tax, such as the auxiliary fronting rule in interrogative formation, even without having heard directly relevant data (e.g., interrogatives containing an auxiliary in a relative clause in the subject NP). | en |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Amy Perfors, Joshua B. Tenenbaum and Terry Regier | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Cognitive Science Society | en |
dc.rights | © the author | en |
dc.source.uri | http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2006/docs/p663.pdf | en |
dc.title | Poverty of the stimulus? A rational approach | en |
dc.type | Conference paper | en |
dc.contributor.conference | Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (28th : 2006 : Vancouver, Canada) | en |
dc.publisher.place | United States | en |
pubs.publication-status | Published | en |
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