Learning a Complex Language From Simple Input: Contributions of Phrase Bracketing Information

All normal children succeed in acquiring the languages to which they are exposed. Yet, the rules which children induce are underdetermined by their language data. Moreover, children are not exposed to representative samples of their languages; rather, sentences addressed to children tend to be short and syntactically simple. Nevertheless, children exposed to different samples of a language succeed in inducing virtually identical sets of rules. How is the induction of such rules to be explained?

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Morgan, James Louis

• Psychology, Developmental

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8410001

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69637