Language Acquisition and Learnability

Author： Stefano Bertolo  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2001

E-ISBN: 9780511825422

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521641494

Subject： H0 Linguistics

Keyword： 语言学

Language： ENG

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Language Acquisition and Learnability

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Language Acquisition and Learnability is an accessible introduction to learnability theory and its interactions with linguistic theories. Working within the Principles and Parameters framework, the book surveys general concepts from formal learning theory and complexity theory, together with important findings from developmental psycholinguistics, historical linguistics and language processing. Written by a team of leading researchers it examines important techniques that can be used to obtain interesting and empirically testable predictions from parametric theories of language variation and includes chapters on syntax, diachronic syntax and the relationship between linguistic complexity and the form of parameters. Fully integrated, and complete with a large number of exercises to test readers on their understanding of the material, this book will become essential reading for students and researchers in linguistic theory.

Chapter

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 A brief overview of learnability

1.1 The five components of a learning problem

1.2 Moving away from identi®cation by enumeration

1.3 A formal model of parameter spaces

Notes

2 Learnability and the acquisition of syntax

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The child's linguistic environment

2.3 Subset parameters

2.4 Non-subset parameters

Notes

3 Language change and learnability

3.1 Introduction and general hypotheses

3.2 The nature of parameters

3.3 Changes

Notes

4 Information theory, complexity and linguisticdescriptions

4.1 Introduction and motivation

4.2 The simplicity of the input to the learner

4.3 Statistical and computational foundations

Notes

5 The Structural Triggers Learner

5.1 Introduction1

5.2 Triggering

5.3 Using the parser to identify triggers

5.4 The Triggering Learning Algorithm

5.5 Performance of a TLA-like algorithm

5.6 Adding in the SVC

5.7 The Parametric Principle

5.8 Structural triggers

5.9 Performance of an STL-like learner

5.10 Implications for linguistic research

References

Index

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