Babel: A Psychologically Plausible Cross-Linguistic Model of Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition
Abstract
I will be investigating the notion that the acquisition of syntax is a two-stage process: 1) the contents and structure of the lexicon are learned through a statistical inductive procedure; and 2) a deductive, rule-based procedure, examining the contents of this lexicon, allows the child to make syntactic generalizations. Using these tools, along with the assumption that the child learns thematic words (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and function words (prepositions, auxiliaries, inflection) in different ways, 1 have been able to construct a model of early language acquisition: Babel. Simulations using Babel are shown to make predictions about the time course of acquisition across languages which are highly correlated with longitudinal studies of early child language.
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Kazman. "Babel: A Psychologically Plausible Cross-Linguistic Model of Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition." International Conference on Machine Learning, 1991. doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-200-7.50019-2Markdown
[Kazman. "Babel: A Psychologically Plausible Cross-Linguistic Model of Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition." International Conference on Machine Learning, 1991.](https://mlanthology.org/icml/1991/kazman1991icml-babel/) doi:10.1016/B978-1-55860-200-7.50019-2BibTeX
@inproceedings{kazman1991icml-babel,
title = {{Babel: A Psychologically Plausible Cross-Linguistic Model of Lexical and Syntactic Acquisition}},
author = {Kazman, Rick},
booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
year = {1991},
pages = {75-79},
doi = {10.1016/B978-1-55860-200-7.50019-2},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/icml/1991/kazman1991icml-babel/}
}