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A Computational Model of Language Acquisition in the Two-Year-Old

By Jane Anne C. Hill

The model presented in Professor Hill's thesis embodies an interdisciplinary research approach which attempts to synthesize the psychological theories of Piaget with the linguistic data available on language acquisition and which makes use of insights gleaned from AI learning systems. The model is a repetition and response model in that it produces linguistic responses to or repetitions of adult input sentences. The hypotheses which the model explores are that the language learner selects examples from the input data available to him on the basis of the salience of the data to him, and that he projects classes for words based on his own capacity for word use. As a research approach the model assumes as little as possible to be innate and tries to isolate and make careful note of that information it is forced to build in.

169 pages
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