Information and learning in processing adjective inflection

Neurophysiological Evidence for Morphological Underspecification in German Strong Adjective Inflection

On the pronominal inflection of the Germanic strong adjective

Machine Learning of Inflection

The task of learning a natural language is an instance of inductive inference (making generalizations based on the past observations to predict the future ones) studied within several traditions in the sciences under such names as “machine learning,” “grammar induction,” and “computational learning theory.” In this chapter, I aim to introduce some of the concepts and approaches used in the form...

Syntactic Cues Alone in Adjective Learning

English has a large and diverse class of adjectives which allow for an infinitival clause as a complement. These have been the subject of a great deal of experimental and theoretical research in linguistics, and have a number of different syntactic and semantic properties (Bresnan 1971, Lasnik and Fiengo 1974, Hartman 2012, among others). All of these adjectives can appear in the frame 'Subject...

Toward Fast Mapping for Robot Adjective Learning

Fast mapping is a phenomenon by which children learn the meanings of novel adjectives after a very small number of exposures when the new word is contrasted with a known word. The present study was a preliminary test of whether machine learners could use such contrasts in unconstrained speech to learn adjective meanings and categories. Six decision tree-based learning methods were evaluated tha...