The price of linguistic productivity : how children learn to break the rules of language /
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Border Wars
- 1.1 How Grammars Leak
- 1.2 Where Core Meets Periphery
- 1.3 Some Outstanding Problems
- 2 The Inevitability of Rules
- 2.1 Statistical Profiles of Grammar
- 2.2 Interlude: Irregular Rules and Irregular Verbs
- 2.3 Productivity in Child Language
- 3 The Tipping Point
- 3.1 Learning by Generalization
- 3.2 The Cost of Exceptions
- 3.3 Elsewhere in Language Processing
- 3.4 The Tolerance Principle
- 3.5 Remarks
- 4 Signal and Noise
- 4.1 When Felt Becomes Feeled
- 4.2 A Recursive Approach to Stress
- 4.3 The Mysteries of Nominalization
- 4.4 The Horrors of German: Exceptions that Force the Rules
- 5 When Language Fails
- 5.1 Finding Gaps
- 5.2 The Rise and Fall of Productivity
- 5.3 Diagnosing Sickness
- 6 The Logic of Evidence
- 6.1 Inference and Weight of Evidence
- 6.2 Why Are There No Asleep Cats?
- 6.3 Resolving Baker's Paradox
- 7 On Language Design
- 7.1 Computational Efficiency in Language Acquisition
- 7.2 Core and Periphery Revisited
- 7.3 The Ecology of Language Learning
- Bibliography
- Index.