Simulation of Language Acquisition Walter Daelemans
1. Simulation of Language Acquisition Walter Daelemans (CNTS, University of Antwerp) [email_address] http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/~walter EMLAR 2005 Utrecht
24. This “rule of nearest neighbor” has considerable elementary intuitive appeal and probably corresponds to practice in many situations. For example, it is possible that much medical diagnosis is influenced by the doctor's recollection of the subsequent history of an earlier patient whose symptoms resemble in some way those of the current patient. (Fix and Hodges, 1952, p.43) MBL: Use memory traces of experiences as a basis for analogical reasoning, rather than using rules or other abstractions extracted from experience and replacing the experiences.
39. Parameters (with setting for Dutch) Feet are / aren’t assigned iteratively P10 Weak foot looses / doesn’t loose foot status in a clash P9 Left / Right -most syllable is extra-metrical P8 There isn’t / is an extra-metrical syllable P8A Strong node in foot must / mustn’t branch P7 Feet are quantity-sensitive w.r.t. rime / nucleus P6 Feet are / are not quantity-sensitive P5 Feet right/ left -dominant P4 Feet assigned from the left/ right edge P3 Binary/ unbound feet P2 Word tree right /left dominant P1 Value Parameter