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| - | LIMITS AND VARIATIONS OF LINGUISTIC GENERALIZATIONS | + | LIMITS AND VARIATIONS OF LINGUISTIC GENERALIZATIONS\\ |
| Silvia Radulescu (Utrecht University), | Silvia Radulescu (Utrecht University), | ||
| - | sil.radulescu@gmail.com | + | \\ |
| - | - //published in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (pp.207), Edinburgh, Scotland// | + | - //published in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (pp.207), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014// |
| When confronted with the challenge of learning their native language, children manage impressively fast to infer generalized rules from a limited set of linguistic items, and apply those rules to strings of words never heard before. This study investigates what triggers and what limits the inductive leap from memorizing specific items to extracting general rules. Our new entropy-based approach allows the prediction that generalization is a cognitive mechanism that results from the interaction of linguistic input complexity (entropy) and the limited processing and memory capacity of the human brain (i.e. a limited channel capacity).\\ | When confronted with the challenge of learning their native language, children manage impressively fast to infer generalized rules from a limited set of linguistic items, and apply those rules to strings of words never heard before. This study investigates what triggers and what limits the inductive leap from memorizing specific items to extracting general rules. Our new entropy-based approach allows the prediction that generalization is a cognitive mechanism that results from the interaction of linguistic input complexity (entropy) and the limited processing and memory capacity of the human brain (i.e. a limited channel capacity).\\ | ||