The Price of Linguistic Productivity : How Children Learn to Break the Rules of Language /

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"All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance betwe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Yang, Charles D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Language acquisition > Age factors.
Computational linguistics.
Bilingualism in children.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
computational linguistics.
Linguistique informatique.
Analyse linguistique (Linguistique)
Langage > Acquisition > Facteurs lies à l'âge.
Electronic books.
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.

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