Biró, Tamás. Elephants and Optimality Again: SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T37D2S6C
DescriptionChildren display a surprising delay in correctly resolving pronouns, while they employ Chomsky's binding principles correctly in production and in resolving reflexives. We account for the mistakes as performance errors that are predicted by an Optimality Theoretical model implemented using simulated annealing (SA-OT). Our experiments suggest three novel explanations of the facts (see section 6). Additionally, the Optimality Theory-Harmony Grammar connection is also explored: the behaviour of the HG-based performance model converges to the OT-model if the base of the exponential weights grow large.
NoteThe definitive version of this paper was published in Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, LOT Occasional Series 14.(2009) and is available at http://lotos.library.uu.nl/.
NoteBiró, T. (2009). Elephants and Optimality Again: SA-OT accounts for pronoun resolution in child language. In: B. Plank, and E.T.K. Sang, T. Cruys, (Eds.). Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009. LOT Occasional Series 14. pp. 9-24. Utrecht: LOT.
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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