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dc.contributor.authorGobet, F-
dc.contributor.authorPine, J M-
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dc.date.accessioned2008-05-01T13:13:16Z-
dc.date.available2008-05-01T13:13:16Z-
dc.date.issued1997-
dc.identifier.citationGobet, F., & Pine, J. M. (1997). Modelling the acquisition of syntactic categories. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 265-270. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2130-
dc.description.abstractThis research represents an attempt to model the child’s acquisition of syntactic categories. A computational model, based on the EPAM theory of perception and learning, is developed. The basic assumptions are that (1) syntactic categories are actively constructed by the child using distributional learning abilities; and (2) cognitive constraints in learning rate and memory capacity limit these learning abilities. We present simulations of the syntax acquisition of a single subject, where the model learns to build up multi-word utterances by scanning a sample of the speech addressed to the subject by his mother.en
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dc.publisherErlbaumen
dc.subjectMOSAICen
dc.subjectacquisition of languageen
dc.subjectsyntaxen
dc.subjectdistributional analysisen
dc.subjectEPAMen
dc.subjectCHRESTen
dc.subjectchunkingen
dc.subjectcomputer modelingen
dc.subjectsyntactic categoriesen
dc.subjectmulti-word utterancesen
dc.subjectCHILDESen
dc.subjectnativismen
dc.subjectconstructivismen
dc.subjectChomskyen
dc.subjectTomaselloen
dc.titleModelling the acquisition of syntactic categoriesen
dc.typeResearch Paperen
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