Distributional Information: A Powerful Cue for Acquiring Syntactic Categories |
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| Authors: | Martin Redington Nick Chater Steven Finch |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;2. Department of Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;3. Departments of Gastroenterology/Transplant Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;4. Department of Heart/Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;5. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;6. Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;1. The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory and Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;1. Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science, University of Bristol, UK;2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran;1. Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l’Éducation de l’Enfant (LaPsyDÉ), La Sorbonne, Université de Paris, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France;2. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, DEC–ENS/EHESS/CNRS, Ecole normale supérieure, PSL University, 75005 Paris, France;3. Maternité Port-Royal, AP–HP, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, 75014 Paris, France;4. Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3, France;1. Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China;2. 58.com, Beijing 100600, China;3. Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan |
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| Abstract: | Many theorists have dismissed a priori the idea that distributional information could play a significant role in syntactic category acquisition. We demonstrate empirically that such information provides a powerful cue to syntactic category membership, which can be exploited by a variety of simple, psychologically plausible mechanisms. We present a range of results using a large corpus of child-directed speech and explore their psychological implications. While our results show that a considerable amount of information concerning the syntactic categories can be obtained from distributional information alone, we stress that many other sources of information may also be potential contributors to the identification of syntactic classes. |
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