Statistics Vs. UG In Language Acquisition: Does A Bigram Analysis Predict Auxiliary Inversion?
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No examples like (1) occurred in the corpus that R&C employed, yet the grammatical form was chosen by the bigram model in 92% of the test sentence pairs. R&C conclude that no innate knowledge is necessary to guide child learners in making this discrimination, because the input evidently contains enough indirect statistical information (from other sentence types) to lead learners to the correct generalization.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005