Learnability

 Posted on Thu, Jan 1, 2015  |  Alexander Clark

Authors Clark, Alexander Year 2015 Abstract Reviews of learnability in linguistics focus on negative results, with the nativists stressing the negative results and the researchers of a more empiricist persuasion downplaying them. This chapter discusses the theory of learnability or grammatical inference, from a positive perspective. It focuses on the methodological issues involved in applying the tools of mathematical analysis to the empirical problem of language acquisition, and the various assumptions that one make, and by discussing the problems of grammatical inference. [Read More]
distributional learning  grammatical inference  language acquisition  learnability  mathematical analysis