An account of grammatical acquisition is developed within the parametersetting framework applied to a generalized categorial grammar (GCG). The GCG is embedded in a default inheritance network yielding a natural partial ordering (reflecting generality) of parameters which determines a partial order for parameter setting. Computational simulation shows that several resulting acquisition procedures are effective on a parameter set expressing major typological distinctions based on constituent order, and defining 70 distinct full languages and over 200 subset languages. The effects on acquisition of inductive bias, that is, of differing initial parameter settings, are explored via computational simulation. Computational simulation of populations of language learners and users instantiating the acquisition model show: 1) that variant acquisition procedures, with differing inductive biases, exert differing selective pressures on the evolution of language(s); 2) acquisition proc...
|
519
|
The Origins of Order: SelfOrganization and Selection in Evolution
– Kauffman
- 1993
|
|
458
|
The selfish gene
– Dawkins
- 1976
|
|
428
|
Lectures on Government and Binding
– Chomsky
- 1981
|
|
265
|
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
– Kimura
- 1983
|
|
264
|
How learning can guide evolution
– E, Nowlan
- 1987
|
|
264
|
The Language Instinct
– Pinker
- 1994
|
|
241
|
Learning and Development in Neural Networks: The Importance of Starting Small
– Elman
- 1993
|
|
224
|
Knowledge of Language. Its Nature, Origin, and Use
– Chomsky
- 1986
|
|
178
|
Interactions between learning and evolution
– Ackley, Littman
- 1991
|
|
154
|
The Need for Biases in Learning Generalizations
– Mitchell
- 1980
|
|
130
|
Natural language and natural selection
– Pinker, Bloom
- 1990
|
|
124
|
Formal Principles of Language Acquisition
– Wexler, Culicover
- 1980
|
|
122
|
Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies
– Gibson
- 1998
|
|
115
|
The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge
– Berwick
- 1985
|
|
114
|
Surface Structure and Interpretation
– Steedman
- 1996
|
|
110
|
The convergence of mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms
– Joshi, Vijay-Shanker, et al.
- 1991
|
|
104
|
The Extended Phenotype
– Dawkins
- 1982
|
|
96
|
A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency
– Hawkins
- 1994
|
|
90
|
Type Logical Grammar: Categorial Logic of Signs. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. nllt.tex; 3/07/2000; 16:10; p.59
– Morrill
- 1994
|
|
84
|
Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation
– Chomsky
- 1991
|
|
84
|
Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements
– Greenberg
- 1966
|
|
81
|
Maturational constraints on language learning
– Newport
- 1990
|
|
78
|
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon
– Dennett
- 1995
|
|
74
|
Synthesising the origins of language and meaning using co-evolution, selforganisation and level formation
– Steels
- 1997
|
|
72
|
Applicability of indexed grammars to natural language
– Gazdar
- 1985
|
|
69
|
Combinators and grammars
– Steedman
- 1988
|
|
68
|
Biological evolution of the saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device
– Hurford
- 1989
|
|
68
|
Individual differences in syntactic processing: the role of working memory
– King, Just
- 1991
|
|
67
|
The descent of man and selection in relation to sex
– DARWIN
- 1871
|
|
66
|
Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgement under uncertainty
– Cosmides, Tooby
- 1996
|
|
65
|
Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals
– Kirby
- 1999
|
|
62
|
Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters
– Waddington
- 1942
|
|
55
|
Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters
– Hyams
- 1986
|
|
53
|
The lexicon in acquisition
– Clark
- 1993
|
|
53
|
A Computational Learning Model for Metrical Phonology
– Dresher, Kaye
- 1990
|
|
53
|
Coevolution, Genes, Culture and Human Diversity
– Durham
- 1991
|
|
51
|
Evolutionary Genetics
– Smith, J
- 1998
|
|
50
|
Phonetic universals in vowel systems
– Lindblom
- 1986
|
|
49
|
Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change. Language Variation and Change 1.199–244
– KROCH
- 1989
|
|
48
|
Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints
– Kirby, Hurford
- 1997
|
|
48
|
Landscapes, learning costs and genetic assimilation
– Mayley
- 1996
|
|
44
|
A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change," ms., Universit'e de Gen`eve
– Clark, Roberts
- 1991
|
|
42
|
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the
– Deacon
- 1997
|
|
39
|
Categorial grammars
– Wood
- 1993
|
|
38
|
Computational Analysis of the Syntax and Interpretation of ‘Free’ Word-order in Turkish
– Hoffman
- 1995
|
|
37
|
The language bioprogram hypothesis
– Bickerton
- 1984
|
|
36
|
The puzzle of the persistent question marks: a case study of genetic drift
– Harvey
- 1993
|
|
36
|
Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology: An Introduction
– Roughgarden
- 1979
|
|
35
|
How to set parameters: arguments from language change
– Lightfoot
- 1991
|
|
34
|
Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory
– Wexler, Manzini
- 1987
|
