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Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Alexander (Alexander Simon)
Other Authors: Lappin, Shalom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Wiley online library.
Subjects:
Language acquisition.
Native language.
Computational linguistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction: Nativism in Linguistic Theory
  • Clarifying the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus
  • The Stimulus: Determining the Nature of Primary Linguistic Data
  • Learning in the Limit: The Gold Paradigm
  • Probabilistic Learning Theory for Language Acquisition
  • A Formal Model of Indirect Negative Evidence
  • Computational Complexity and Efficient Learning
  • Positive Results in Efficient Learning
  • Grammar Induction through Implemented Machine Learning
  • Parameters in Linguistic Theory and Probabilistic Language Models
  • A Brief Look at Some Biological and Psychological Evidence
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
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