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Empiricism and Language Learnability by Nick Chater, Alexander Clark, John A. Goldsmith, and Amy Perfors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Empiricism and Language Learnability about?

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language acquisition proceeds through general purpose learning mechanisms, an approach that is broadly empiricist both methodologically and psychologically. For many years, the empiricist approach has been taken to be unfeasible on practical and theoretical grounds. In the book, the authors present a variety of precisely specified mathematical and computational results that show that empiricist approaches can form a viable solution to the problem of language acquisition. It assumes limited technical background and explains the fundamental principles of probability, grammatical description and learning theory in an accessible and non-technical way. Different chapters address the problem of language acquisition using different assumptions: looking at the methodology of linguistic analysis using simplicity based criteria, using computational experiments on real corpora, using theoretical analysis using probabilistic learning theory, and l

Who reads Empiricism and Language Learnability?

Author

Nick Chater, Alexander Clark, John A. Goldsmith, and Amy Perfors

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191053597

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Linguistics, Language Learning