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Gagliardi, Annie; Feldman, Naomi H.; Lidz, Jeffrey – Cognitive Science, 2017
Children acquiring languages with noun classes (grammatical gender) have ample statistical information available that characterizes the distribution of nouns into these classes, but their use of this information to classify novel nouns differs from the predictions made by an optimal Bayesian classifier. We use rational analysis to investigate the…
Descriptors: Children, Statistics, Learning, Bayesian Statistics