Responsable : Benjamin Spector
L'ARGUMENT DE LA PAUVRETE DU STIMULUS
Décembre 2016
Textes à lire et commenter
Les 2 textes ou paires de textes suivants peuvent donner lieu à une présentation:
1. Présenter les deux articles figurant dans le document suivant (13 pages en tout), le deuxième article étant une réponse au premier.
Lidz et al. (2003) + Comments by Foraker et al.
[Pour la réponse, vous pouvez ignorer les éléments les plus techniques et vous concentrer sur les éléments clés de l'argumentation].
Références:
A. Lidz, Waxman & Freedman, 2003, "What infants know about syntax but couldn’t have learned: experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months", Cognition 89
B. Foraker et al. , "Learning the unlearnable: the role of missing evidence", p. 147-154, Cognition 93 (2004)]
2. Présenter l'article suivant (19 pages)
Culbertson 2012, Typological Universals as Reflections of Biased Learning: Evidence from Artificial Language Learning, Language and Linguistics Compass.
Background readings
Pearl & Lidz 2009, When Domain-General Learning Fails and When It Succeeds: Identifying the Contribution of Domain Specificity
Pearl & Sprouse, Syntactic Islands and Universal Grammar: A computational model of the acquisition of constraints on long-distance dependencies
Viau & Lidz, 2011, Selective learning in the acquisition of Kannada ditransitives, Language 87(4), p. 679-714
Sprouse, Wagers & Phillips, A test of the relation between working memory capacity and syntactic island effects, published in Language 88.1 (2012): 82-123.
Perfors, Amy, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Terry Regier 2011. .The learnability of abstract syntactic principles. Cognition 118, no. 3 (2011): 306-338
Perfors, Amy, 2012, Bayesian Models of Cognition: What's Built in After All?, Philosophy Compass 7/2 (2012): 127–138, 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00467.x
[Références:
A. Bonatti, L. L., Pena, M., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2005). Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Computations The Role of Consonants and Vowels in Continuous Speech Processing. Psychological Science, 16(6), 451-459.
B. Keidel, J. L., Jenison, R. L., Kluender, K. R., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2007). Does grammar constrain statistical learning? Commentary on Bonatti, Peña, Nespor, and Mehler (2005). Psychological Science, 18(10), 922-923.
C. Bonatti, L. L., Peña, M., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2007). On consonants, vowels, chickens, and eggs. Psychological Science, 18(10), 924-925.]
Chapter 2 of Lappin & Clark 2010 [From Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus]
Bickerton 1984, The language bioprogram hypothesis BBS, 7, 173-221
Cowie, 1997, The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition [A philosophical criticism of the PoS argument]
Berwick, Pietroski, Yankama & Chomsky 2011, Poverty of the stimulus revisited