Publication Date:
1997-03-14
Description:
What kinds of knowledge underlie the use of language and how is this knowledge acquired? Linguists equate knowing a language with knowing a grammar. Classic "poverty of the stimulus" arguments suggest that grammar identification is an intractable inductive problem and that acquisition is possible only because children possess innate knowledge of grammatical structure. An alternative view is emerging from studies of statistical and probabilistic aspects of language, connectionist models, and the learning capacities of infants. This approach emphasizes continuity between how language is acquired and how it is used. It retains the idea that innate capacities constrain language learning, but calls into question whether they include knowledge of grammatical structure.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Seidenberg, M S -- KO2 01188/PHS HHS/ -- P01 47566/PHS HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Mar 14;275(5306):1599-603.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA. marks@gizmo.usc.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9054348" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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Algorithms
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Child
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Humans
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Infant
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*Language Development
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*Learning
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*Linguistics
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Neural Networks (Computer)
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Probability
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Psycholinguistics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
