Variability, negative evidence, and the acquisition of verb argument constructions

We present a hierarchical Bayesian framework for modeling the acquisition of verb argument constructions. It embodies a domain-general approach to learning higher-level knowledge in the form of inductive constraints (or overhypotheses), and has been used to explain other aspects of language devel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Perfors, Amy, Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Wonnacott, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60652
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035