PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Connectionism, Dan Slobin, Bootstrapping (Linguistics)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

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. slobin: operating principles (like constraints: pay attention to word order and endings, avoid exceptions. Knowing objects and agents allows for word order. Problem is that sentences do not always label what is happening in front of child. Stable word order implicates rules: can be learned from environment. Overgeneralization erros (cid:494)he runned(cid:495: has irregular rules, don"t hear the errors but produce them, children do this to proof learn a rule. Cognitive functional: communicative intent and pattern recognition is all you need. Stat learning: proof against chomsky because good at learning patterns= domain general. Exemplar-based: match new items to stored items. Repeating speech in which errors are corrected and elaborated= expansions. Recasts= responses to speech in which parents restate it in a different structure. Clarifications= listener didn"t understand, so the child tries again: negative evidence, not very common. Tomasello: usage based, exemplars (sentence to sentence: glean abstract rules over specific learned items, toddlers may have lexically specific grammars.