Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments
By Geoffrey K. Pullum, Barbara C. Scholz. 2002
Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics
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In Cognitive Science & Psychology
- Josh Tenenbaum
- John D. Lewis
- Robert Frank
- Noam Chomsky
- Beracah Yankama
- Robert C. Berwick
- Paul Pietroski
- Tal Linzen
In Linguistics
- Jeffrey L. Elman
- Josh Tenenbaum
- Tal Linzen
- Adele E. Goldberg
- Samuel R. Bowman
- Alex Warstadt
- John D. Lewis
- Juan Uriagereka
Citations in the corpus
- Neural Network Acceptability Judgments (2018, background): “While the APS has been subject to much criticism (Pullum and Scholz, 2002), it remains a foundation of much of contemporary linguistics.”
- Constructions: a new theoretical approach to language. (2003, background): “It turns out that the input need not be nearly as impoverished as is sometimes assumed [ 39 ]; analogical processes can be seen to be viable once function as well as form is taken into account [40,41]; there is good reason to think that children’s early grammar is quite conservative, with generaliza”
- Poverty of the Stimulus? A Rational Approach (2006, background): “The first considers what evidence there is in the input and what constitutes “enough” (Pullum and Scholz, 2002; Legate and Yang, 2002).”
- Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks (2018, background): “Some have disputed the assumption that children never encounter critical cases such as (3a) (Pullum & Scholz, 2002).”
- Learnability and the Statistical Structure of Language: Poverty of Stimulus Arguments Revisited (2004, background): “Indeed, Pullum and Scholz (2001) estimate that such examples make up about one percent of a typical corpus.”
- Poverty of the Stimulus Revisited (2011, methodology): “On alternatives to the classical POS argument and its extensions, see Lewis and Elman (2001) and Pullum and Scholz (2002).”
- Beyond formalities: The case of language acquisition (2005, background): “But in an analysis of some written corpora and corpora of child directed speech, Pullum and Scholz (2002) find many of just the right kind of examples that children need, such things as: (4) Can those who are leaving early __ sit near the door?”
- Can neural networks acquire a structural bias from raw linguistic data? (2020, background): “Nonetheless the argument’s validity has been at times been questioned (Pullum & Scholz, 2002; Reali & Christiansen, 1See Laurence and Margolis (2001) and Pullum and Scholz (2002) for a more detailed exposition of this argument.”