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Computational Model Of First Language Acquisition, A: 20
Author(s): Nobuo Satake (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 1990
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 206 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789810201395
- ISBN-13: 9810201397
Book Description
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.
