A Computational Model of First Language Acquisition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810201395)

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.

Author: Nobuo Satake
ISBN-10: 9810201397
ISBN-13: 9789810201395
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1990
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.38w x 0.66d