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Children master language quickly and with relative ease, supported by both biological predisposition and reinforcement. B. F. Skinner (1957) proposed that language is learned through reinforcement, while Noam Chomsky (1965) argued that language acquisition mechanisms are biologically determined.
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Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition.

M Redington, N Chater

    Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    |January 13, 2011
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    Simple statistical learning mechanisms aid language acquisition by providing cues for word segmentation and morphology. These methods, when combined with innate knowledge, offer a feasible approach to understanding language development using real-world data.

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    Area of Science:

    • Computational linguistics
    • Developmental psychology
    • Cognitive science

    Background:

    • Traditional language acquisition research often relies on idealized artificial input.
    • Limited understanding of how innate knowledge interacts with environmental cues.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • Investigate the role of statistical learning in natural language acquisition.
    • Explore how simple mechanisms contribute to complex language tasks.
    • Provide an empirical basis for innate-environment interaction in language development.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of natural language corpora using statistical and connectionist methods.
    • Examining the contribution of these methods to word segmentation, morphology, and syntax acquisition.

    Main Results:

    • Statistical learning mechanisms provide partial but valuable cues for language acquisition.
    • These cues are essential for tasks like word segmentation and learning inflectional morphology.
    • Demonstrated feasibility of using real natural language data for acquisition research.

    Conclusions:

    • Simple statistical learning is a viable component of language acquisition mechanisms.
    • Partial cues from statistical learning must be integrated with innate knowledge and other environmental information.
    • This research offers hypotheses for experimental testing on innate-environment interactions.