Conference on Bootstrapping from Speech to Syntax, Providence, RI, January 15-17, 1993

摘要 获得在声音和 意义是孩子们面临的主要任务之一， 学习语言。 在诱导这样的代码儿童必须使用 他们听到的演讲和事件中的信息 他们所看到的与预先设定的限制相结合 关于句法的假设 归纳的过程是 在收购文献中被称为“自举”。 以前，言语流在很大程度上被忽视， 关于语言结构的潜在信息来源。 然而，最近，越来越多的学者在一系列的 学科已经开始研究 语音输入和句法习得。 这些研究人员 包括理论和计算语言学家，声学家， 语言病理学家、心理学家和认知科学家 专攻言语感知和语言习得。 不幸的是，这些研究人员中的大多数都是在相对 与世隔绝，很少有机会接触来自 其他学科。 现在是时候让他们走到一起， 可能会分享见解和图表方向，为未来的研究， 这一极其重要的新研究领域 私家侦探摩根和 因此，Demuth正在组织一次工作会议， 从语音到句法的自我引导 的议事情况 会议将公布。

ABSTRACT Acquiring the syntactic code that mediates between sound and meaning is one of the primary tasks that children face in learning language. In inducing such a code children must use information available in the speech that they hear and the events that they witness in combination with preprogrammed constraints on syntactic hypotheses. The process of induction has come to be called "bootstrapping" in the acquisition literature. Previously, the speech streem has been largely overlooked as a potential source of information about linguistic structure. Recently, however, an increasing number of scholars in a range of disciplines have begun to investigate the relationship between input speech and the acquisition of syntax. These researchers include theoretical and computational linguists, acousticians, speech pathologists, and psychologists and cognitive scientists specializing in speech perception and language acquisition. Unfortunately, most of these researchers work in relative isolation, having little opportunity for contact with those from other disciplines. It is time to bring them together, that they might share insights and chart directions for future research in this vitally important new area of research. PIs Morgan and Demuth are therefore organizing a working conference on bootstrapping from speech to syntax. The proceedings of the conference will be published.