NDLI: Computational Modeling for Language Acquisition: A Tutorial With Syntactic Islands.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Pearl, Lisa S. Sprouse, Jon
Abstract	PURPOSE: Given the growing prominence of computational modeling in the acquisition research community, we present a tutorial on how to use computational modeling to investigate learning strategies that underlie the acquisition process. This is useful for understanding both typical and atypical linguistic development. METHOD: We provide a general overview of why modeling can be a particularly informative tool and some general considerations when creating a computational acquisition model. We then review a concrete example of a computational acquisition model for complex structural knowledge referred to as syntactic islands. This includes an overview of syntactic islands knowledge, a precise definition of the acquisition task being modeled, the modeling results, and how to meaningfully interpret those results in a way that is relevant for questions about knowledge representation and the learning process. CONCLUSIONS: Computational modeling is a powerful tool that can be used to understand linguistic development. The general approach presented here can be used to investigate any acquisition task and any learning strategy, provided both are precisely defined.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	10924388
Issue Number	3
Journal	Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
Volume Number	58
e-ISSN	15589102
Language	English
Publisher	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Publisher Date	2015-06-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Discipline Audiology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine Speech and Hearing Linguistics and Language

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