Input Filtering in Syntactic Acquisition: Answers From Language Change Modeling
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Input Filtering in Syntactic Acquisition: Answers From Language Change Modeling
We use historical change to explore whether children filter their input for language learning. Although others (e.g., Rohde & Plaut, 1999) have proposed filtering based on string length, we explore two types of filters that assume richer linguistic structure. One presupposes that linguistic utterances are structurally highly ambiguous and focuses learning on unambiguous data (Dresher, 1999; Fod...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language Learning and Development
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1547-5441,1547-3341
DOI: 10.1080/15475440709337000