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A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation: corpus analysis and modeling

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A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation: corpus analysis and modeling. / Twomey, Katherine; Chang, Franklin; Ambridge, Ben.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ed. / Markus Knauff; Michael Pauen; Natalie Sebanz; Ipke Wachsmuth. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2013. p. 1498-1503.

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Twomey, K, Chang, F & Ambridge, B 2013, A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation: corpus analysis and modeling. in M Knauff, M Pauen, N Sebanz & I Wachsmuth (eds), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 1498-1503, 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, 31/07/13. <http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0281>

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Twomey, K., Chang, F., & Ambridge, B. (2013). A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation: corpus analysis and modeling. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1498-1503). Cognitive Science Society. http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0281

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Twomey K, Chang F, Ambridge B. A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation: corpus analysis and modeling. In Knauff M, Pauen M, Sebanz N, Wachsmuth I, editors, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 2013. p. 1498-1503

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Twomey, Katherine ; Chang, Franklin ; Ambridge, Ben. / A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation : corpus analysis and modeling. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. editor / Markus Knauff ; Michael Pauen ; Natalie Sebanz ; Ipke Wachsmuth. Austin, TX : Cognitive Science Society, 2013. pp. 1498-1503

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abstract = "Early in acquisition children overgeneralize verbs to ungrammatical structures. The retreat from overgeneralization is linked to the acquisition of verb classes, the semantics of which constrain the structures in which a verb can appear (e.g., Pinker 1989; Ambridge, Pine & Rowland, 2012). How children learn these classes remains unclear. Some argue that distributional regularities in linguistic input provide sufficient evidence for verb classes to emerge and become linked to particular structures. A corpus analysis of the English locative construction (e.g., the woman sprayed water onto the wall/the wall with water) demonstrated that children have similar verb classes to adults. A correspondence analysis revealed that distributional regularities in the input could support these verb classes. Finally, a connectionist simulation was able to model early overgeneralization and retreat through distributional learning of verb classes. These results support a distributional learning account of verb semantics.",
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