Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus /

• Main Author: Clark, Alexander (Alexander Simon)
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lappin, Shalom
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Subjects: Language acquisition.; Native language.; Computational linguistics.; Language and languages.; Electronic books.

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 debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.: Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the S...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Introduction: Nativism in Linguistic Theory
• Clarifying the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus
• The Stimulus: Determining the Nature of Primary Linguistic Data
• Learning in the Limit: The Gold Paradigm
• Probabilistic Learning Theory for Language Acquisition
• A Formal Model of Indirect Negative Evidence
• Computational Complexity and Efficient Learning
• Positive Results in Efficient Learning
• Grammar Induction through Implemented Machine Learning
• Parameters in Linguistic Theory and Probabilistic Language Models
• A Brief Look at Some Biological and Psychological Evidence
• Conclusion
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index.