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Culbertson, Jennifer; Smolensky, Paul – Cognitive Science, 2012
In this article, we develop a hierarchical Bayesian model of learning in a general type of artificial language-learning experiment in which learners are exposed to a mixture of grammars representing the variation present in real learners' input, particularly at times of language change. The modeling goal is to formalize and quantify hypothesized…
Descriptors: Models, Bayesian Statistics, Artificial Languages, Language Acquisition

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