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Bertolo, Stefano – Language Acquisition, 1995
Presents a framework for studying the effects of the Maturation Hypothesis on the problem of language learning, parametrically conceived, and offers a method for finding all existing maturational solutions for any parametric hypothesis space and any learning algorithm that differs from Gibson and Wexler's Triggering Learning Algorithm. (27…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis
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Bohnacker, Ute – Language Acquisition, 1997
Addresses phenomena exhibited by young children such as suffixed and free articles, double definiteness, genitives, pronouns, and "nominal style." Shows that analysis of these early data must invoke at least one functional projection above the noun phrase. Findings argue against any claim about the universal absence of functional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)