Clark, Alexander (Alexander Simon) creator Lappin, Shalom. Wiley InterScience (Online service) text bibliography Electronic books. enk Chichester, West Sussex Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations 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 mechanisms Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered. 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. Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin. Includes bibliographical references and index. Language acquisition Native language Computational linguistics Language and languages Computational linguistics Language acquisition Native language P118 .C544 2011 401/.93 Clark, Alexander (Alexander Simon). Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (DLC) 2010026274 (OCoLC)643763545 9781444390568 1444390562 9781444390544 1444390546 1283514273 9781283514279 9781405187848 1405187840 9781405187855 1405187859 10.1002/9781444390568 Wiley InterScience http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444390568 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444390568 UIU 110428 20171119090058.0 ocn716210972 eng