Modeling the Development of Children's Use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English Using MOSAIC
Modeling the Development of Children's Use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English Using MOSAIC
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使用 MOSAIC 对荷兰语和英语中儿童使用可选不定式的发展进行建模
DOI：
10.1207/s15516709cog0000_47
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
F. Gobet
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作者：
D. Freudenthal;J. Pine;F. Gobet
在这项研究中，我们使用的语言学习的计算模型，称为模型的句法习得的儿童（MOSAIC）调查在何种程度上可以解释的荷兰语和英语中的可选不定式（OI）的现象在资源有限的分布分析荷兰语和英语儿童导向的讲话。结果表明，同一版本的MOSAIC是能够模拟的模式的变化，有限标记在2名儿童学习荷兰语和2名儿童学习英语的平均长度的发言增加。这些结果表明，可以根据学习中的话语最终偏见与这两种语言中儿童指导言语的分布特征之间的相互作用来解释荷兰语和英语中OI现象的关键特征。他们还展示了如何计算建模技术可以用来调查在何种程度上跨语言的相似性的发展数据可以解释在共同的处理限制，而不是先天知识的普遍语法。
In this study we use a computational model of language learning called model of syntax acquisition in children (MOSAIC) to investigate the extent to which the optional infinitive (OI) phenomenon in Dutch and English can be explained in terms of a resource-limited distributional analysis of Dutch and English child-directed speech. The results show that the same version of MOSAIC is able to simulate changes in the pattern of finiteness marking in 2 children learning Dutch and 2 children learning English as the average length of their utterances increases. These results suggest that it is possible to explain the key features of the OI phenomenon in both Dutch and English in terms of the interaction between an utterance-final bias in learning and the distributional characteristics of child-directed speech in the 2 languages. They also show how computational modeling techniques can be used to investigate the extent to which cross-linguistic similarities in the developmental data can be explained in terms of common processing constraints as opposed to innate knowledge of universal grammar.