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Direct linkPerfors, Amy; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.; Wonnacott, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2010
We present a hierarchical Bayesian framework for modeling the acquisition of verb argument constructions. It embodies a domain-general approach to learning higher-level knowledge in the form of inductive constraints (or overhypotheses), and has been used to explain other aspects of language development such as the shape bias in learning object…
Descriptors: Verbs, Inferences, Language Acquisition, Bayesian Statistics
