Choosing a grammar : learning paths and ambiguous evidence in the acquisition of syntax / / Isaac Gould

• Autore: Gould Isaac (Linguist)
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 401.93
• Soggetto topico: Language acquisition; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Generative grammar
• Note generali: Thesis: Ph. D.-- Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Choosing a Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1. A model for language learning -- 1.1 Core themes: A first look -- 1.2 Revisiting the core themes: A look at some similar learning models -- 2. The puzzle of ambiguous evidence -- 2.1 Preliminary considerations -- 2.2 The general case -- 2.3 The subset case -- 3. Ambiguous evidence and modeling learner errors and variability -- 3.1 Errors -- 3.2 Variability -- 4. Ambiguity and development -- 2. The learning model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the model -- 2.1 Introducing the model with two toy examples -- 2.2 The learning procedure: A summary -- 2.3 Ambiguous vs. unambiguous input -- 2.4 Prior probabilities and the update procedure -- 2.5 Generality of the model and learning results -- 3. Comparison with other learning models -- 3.1 Sakas and Fodor (2001): The Structural Triggers Learner -- 3.2 Gibson and Wexler (1994): The Triggering Learning Algorithm -- 3.3 Yang (2002): The Naïve Parameter Learner -- 4. Summary -- 3. The acquisition of verb movement in Swiss German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The core data of verb placement in Swiss German -- 2.1 Adult grammar -- 2.2 Child productions -- 3. Some possible analyses -- 3.1 Alternative #1: Overgeneralizing V2 in embedded clauses -- 3.2 Alternative #2: Extraposition in embedded clauses -- 3.3 Alternative #3: Overgeneralizing VR/VPR -- 3.4 Schönenberger's analysis: Verb movement in embedded clauses -- 4. A learning model for the acquisition puzzle -- 4.1 Analysis of the adult and child grammars -- 4.2 Overview of the model -- 4.3 Insight of the model -- 4.4 Predictions for the model -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 Priors and update procedure -- 5.2 Results -- 5.3 A closer look at the acquisition data: The distribution of subjects in embedded clauses. ; 6. Comparison with other learning models -- 7. The broader German perspective -- 8. The relation between input and learning -- 9. Summary -- 4. Head-finality and verb movement in Korean -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modeling the effects of parameter interaction: The core example -- 2.1 A schematic version of the model: Learning in a 3-parameter hypothesis space -- 2.2 Results of the 3-parameter model -- 3. Making the model more general: A simplified Korean -- 3.1. Expanding the hypothesis space -- 3.2 Expanding the corpus -- 3.3 Predictions for the model -- 4. Han et al. (2007) and the current model: A deeper look at modeling end-state variability -- 4.1 Review of Han et al. (2007) -- 4.2 Comparison of Han et al. (2007) and the current model -- 4.3 Toward a unification of Han et al. (2007) and the current model -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1 Results of the 5-parameter model -- 5.2 Variability with a probabilistic learner: A broader perspective -- 6. Comparison with other models -- 7. Constraining the model: A first attempt -- 8. Summary -- 5. The case of zero-derived causatives in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pylkkänen (2008) and the learning challenge -- 2.1 Review of Pylkkänen (2008) -- 2.2 The learning challenge -- 3. Addressing the challenge -- 3.1 Learning from implicit negative evidence: The case of zero-derived causatives -- 3.2 Making the model more general -- 3.3 Results -- 3.4 Learning the grammar of the superset language -- 4. Comparison with other models -- 5. Summary -- 6. Learning biases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A problem for defaults -- 2.1 Errors in Swedish -- 2.2 Errors in English -- 2.3 Toward accounting for the Swedish and English errors -- 3. Constraining the model: A new proposal -- 4. Summary -- 7. Final summary -- References -- Swiss German input types and corresponding compatible grammars. ; Additional evidence for a Root-selecting grammar in English? -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Choosing a grammar
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792928003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; ; Volume 238.