The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
By Lila R. Gleitman. Sentence First, Arguments Afterward, 2020
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This chapter presents the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. It shows fundamental problems with a theory of verb learning based solely on observations of the external world. It then shows how these problems can be overcome if those experiences are paired with information about the syntactic structure of the clause that the verb occurs in.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics
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- Grounded PCFG Induction with Images (2020, background): “However, as computational-level models of human syntax acquisition, they lack semantic, pragmatic and environmental information which human learners seem to use (Gleitman, 1990; Pinker and MacWhin-ney, 1987; Tomasello, 2003).”
- Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner (2016, neutral): “ecifically adressing the bootstrapping problem, some frameworks build on systematic correlations between linguistic levels, e.g., between syntactic and semantic categories (syntactic bootstrapping: L. Gleitman, 1990; semantic bootstrapping: Grimshaw, 1981; Pinker, 1984), or between prosodic boundarie”