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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830702503321

Autore

Clark Alexander (Alexander Simon)

Titolo

Linguistic nativism and the poverty of the stimulus [[electronic resource] /] / Alex Clark and Shalom Lappin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-283-51427-3

9786613826725

1-4443-9056-2

1-4443-9054-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LappinShalom

Disciplina

401.93

401/.93

Soggetti

Language acquisition

Native language

Computational linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Nativism in Linguistic Theory; 2 Clarifying the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus; 3 The Stimulus: Determining the Nature of Primary Linguistic Data; 4 Learning in the Limit: The Gold Paradigm; 5 Probabilistic Learning Theory for Language Acquisition; 6 A Formal Model of Indirect Negative Evidence; 7 Computational Complexity and Efficient Learning; 8 Positive Results in Efficient Learning; 9 Grammar Induction through Implemented Machine Learning

10 Parameters in Linguistic Theory and Probabilistic Language Models11 A Brief Look at Some Biological and Psychological Evidence; 12 Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid



development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanismsFocuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, con