Two experiments investigated the performance of first-grade children and adults on an
incidental language-learning task. Learning entailed word segmentation from continuous …

Languages are riddled with partial regularities-patterns that are productive, but not
completely so. Such patterns create a challenge for theories of language acquisition: how …

We introduce symbolic dynamics to cognitive scientists with the aim of furthering constructive
debate on representation. Symbolic dynamics is a mathematical framework in which both …

b Berkeley Linguistics Society Page 1 b Berkeley Linguistics Society Argument Structure and
Learnability: Is a Solution in Sight? Author(s): Melissa Bowerman Proceedings of the …

The present study explores the initial stages of incidental acquisition of two grammatical
properties of verbs (subcategorization and [ir] regularity) during reading in first language …

Probabilistic parsing requires a lexicon that specifies each word's syntactic preferences in
terms of probabilities. To estimate these probabilities for words that were poorly observed …

Abstract Machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs) have found uses in many natural language
tasks. Current MRDs are typically generated either by the expensive processes of …

A primary problem for a child learning her first language is that her ungrammatical
utterances are rarely explicitly corrected. It has been argued that this dearth of negative …

To what extent can humans learn linguistic structure from statistical information in language
input? This dissertation investigates the role of statistical learning in the acquisition of one …

To what extent is linguistic structure learnable from statistical information in the input? One
set of cues which might assist in the discovery of hierarchical phrase structure given serially …