A Usage-Based Model of Early Grammatical Development

The representations and processes yielding the limited length and telegraphic style of language production early on in acquisition have received little attention in acquisitional modeling. In this paper, we present a model, starting with minimal linguistic representations, that incrementally builds up an inventory of increasingly long and abstract grammatical representations (form+meaning pairings), in line with the usage-based conception of language acquisition. We explore its performance on a comprehension and a generation task, showing that, over time, the model better understands the processed utterances, generates longer utterances, and better expresses the situation these utterances intend to refer to.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  CMCL@ACL

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3115/v1/W14-2006
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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