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Linking Infants' Distributional Learning Abilities to Natural Language Acquisition
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van Heugten, Marieke; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This study examines the link between distributional patterns in the input and infants' acquisition of non-adjacent dependencies. In two Headturn Preference experiments, Dutch-learning 24-month-olds (but not 17-month-olds) were found to track the remote dependency between the definite article "het" and the diminutive suffix…
Descriptors: Grammar, Infants, Probability, Language Processing
Linguistique computationnelle (LC) aux pays-bas (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands).
Boot, M. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1979
Describes current activity in the Netherlands in the area of computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics, and text processing. (AM)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Data Processing, Language Processing, Machine Translation
A Model for New Linkages for Prior Learning Assessment
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Kalz, Marco; van Bruggen, Jan; Giesbers, Bas; Waterink, Wim; Eshuis, Jannes; Koper, Rob – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first the paper aims to sketch the theoretical basis for the use of electronic portfolios for prior learning assessment; second it endeavours to introduce latent semantic analysis (LSA) as a powerful method for the computation of semantic similarity between texts and a basis for a new observation link…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Open Universities