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Tatsumi, Tomoko; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The present study investigated children's early use of verb inflection in Japanese by comparing a generativist account, which predicts that the past tense will have a special default-like status for the child during the early stages, with a constructivist input-driven account, which assumes that children's acquisition and use of inflectional forms…
Descriptors: Japanese, Child Language, Generative Grammar, Constructivism (Learning)
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Waterfall, Heidi R.; Sandbank, Ben; Onnis, Luca; Edelman, Shimon – Journal of Child Language, 2010
This paper reports progress in developing a computer model of language acquisition in the form of (1) a generative grammar that is (2) algorithmically learnable from realistic corpus data, (3) viable in its large-scale quantitative performance and (4) psychologically real. First, we describe new algorithmic methods for unsupervised learning of…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics, Databases