[BOOK][B] Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

A Clark, S Lappin - 2010 - books.google.com
This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the
Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider …

A computational model of early argument structure acquisition

A Alishahi, S Stevenson - Cognitive science, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
How children go about learning the general regularities that govern language, as well as
kee** track of the exceptions to them, remains one of the challenging open questions in …

Behavioral and computational aspects of language and its acquisition

S Edelman, H Waterfall - Physics of Life Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
One of the greatest challenges facing the cognitive sciences is to explain what it means to
know a language, and how the knowledge of language is acquired. The dominant approach …

[BOOK][B] Empiricism and language learnability

N Chater, A Clark, JA Goldsmith, A Perfors - 2015 - books.google.com
This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in
linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds—-linguistics, philosophy …

Distributional learning of context-free and multiple context-free grammars

A Clark, R Yoshinaka - Topics in grammatical inference, 2016 - Springer
This chapter reviews recent progress in distributional learning in grammatical inference as
applied to learning context-free and multiple context-free grammars. We discuss the basic …

An empirical generative framework for computational modeling of language acquisition

HR Waterfall, B Sandbank, L Onnis… - Journal of child …, 2010 - cambridge.org
This paper reports progress in develo** a computer model of language acquisition in the
form of (1) a generative grammar that is (2) algorithmically learnable from realistic corpus …

Machine learning theory and practice as a source of insightinto universal grammar

S Lappin, SM Shieber - Journal of Linguistics, 2007 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we explore the possibility that machine learning approaches to natural-
language processing being developed in engineering-oriented computational linguistics …

Unsupervised learning and grammar induction

A Clark, S Lappin - The Handbook of Computational Linguistics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In this chapter we consider unsupervised learning from two perspectives. First, we briefly
look at its advantages and disadvantages as an engineering technique applied to large …

[PDF][PDF] Learning trees from strings: A strong learning algorithm for some context-free grammars

A Clark - The Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2013 - jmlr.org
Standard models of language learning are concerned with weak learning: the learner,
receiving as input only information about the strings in the language, must learn to …

Identification in the Limit of k,l-Substitutable Context-Free Languages

R Yoshinaka - … and Applications: 9th International Colloquium, ICGI …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Recently Clark and Eyraud (2005, 2007) have shown that substitutable context-free
languages are polynomial-time identifiable in the limit from positive data. Substitutability in …