A Model of Children's Acquisition of Grammatical Word Categories from Adult Language Input Using an Adaption and Selection Algorithm

Previous models of language acquisition have had partial success describing the processes that children use to acquire knowledge of the grammatical categories of their native language. The present study used a computer model based on the evolutionary principles of adaptation and selection to gain fu...

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Main Author: Berardi, Emily Marie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2016
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6198
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7198&context=etd