Choosing a Grammar

Learning paths and ambiguous evidence in the acquisition of syntax

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Isaac Gould | Ewha Womans University
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This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic learning model for syntactic parameters that learns a grammar of best fit to the learner’s evidence. The model is then applied to a range of cross-linguistic case studies – in Swiss German, Korean, and English – involving child errors, grammatical variability, and implicit negative evidence. Building on earlier work on language modeling, this book is unique for its focus on ambiguous evidence and its careful attention to the effects of parameters interacting with each other. This allows for a novel and principled account of several acquisition puzzles. With its inter-disciplinary approach, this book will be of broad interest to syntacticians, language acquisitionists, and cognitive scientists of language.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 238] 2017.  ix, 332 pp.
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2021. Gradual syntactic triggering: The gradient parameter hypothesis. Language Acquisition 28:1  pp. 65 ff. DOI logo
Kush, Dave, Charlotte Sant & Sunniva Briså Strætkvern
2021. Learning Island-insensitivity from the input: A corpus analysis of child- and youth-directed text in Norwegian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6:1 DOI logo
Ringstad, Tina & Dave Kush
2021. Learning embedded verb placement in Norwegian: Evidence for early overgeneralization. Language Acquisition 28:4  pp. 411 ff. DOI logo

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Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2017002159 | Marc record