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

摘要获取在语音和语音之间起中介作用的句法代码意义是儿童学习语言的主要任务之一。在诱导这样的代码时，儿童必须使用他们听到的演讲和他们目睹的事件中可用的信息，并结合对句法假设的预先编程限制。在收购文献中，这种归纳的过程被称为“自举”。在此之前，语流在很大程度上被忽视了，因为它是一种关于语言结构的潜在信息来源。然而，最近，越来越多的学者开始研究输入语音和句法习得之间的关系。这些研究人员包括理论和计算语言学家、声学家、言语病理学家，以及专门研究言语感知和语言习得的心理学家和认知学家。不幸的是，这些研究人员大多在相对孤立的环境中工作，几乎没有机会与其他学科的研究人员接触。现在是时候把他们聚集在一起了，这样他们就可以分享见解，为这一至关重要的新研究领域的未来研究制定方向。因此，PiS Morgan和Demuth正在组织一次关于从语音到句法的自举工作会议。会议纪要将予以公布。

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.