A Computational Model of First Language Acquisition

This book describes a study on the question of what sort of innate knowledge it is that enables children to acquire a first language. The author, using a computational approach, builds a model, named BUD (Bring Up a Daughter), on the basis of the data linguists and psychologists have collected.BUD is based on the empirists, view of first language acquisition (as opposed to that of the nativists'), that children make a number of rules in acquiring a first language and that over generalizations can be found in the acquisition of every aspect of a language. Thus, BUD has no built-in procedure by which it computes the structures of a language. A detailed description of the BUD model and its workings answers the question on which the study is based.

Product details

• Authors: Nobuo Satake, Nobuo (Kyoto Univ Of Education Satake
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1990
• EAN: 9789810201395
• ISBN: 978-981-02-0139-5
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 217 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: World Scientific Series In Computer Science; World Scientific Series In Computer Science; World Scientific Computer Scie
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages