[Corpora-List] No poverty of the stimulus

[Rich Cooper]

Not everyone seems to believe that the "poverty of the stimulus" is a valid
argument.  

Here is a mathematically supported paper that provides a deep treatment of
learning language
"Ideal Learning of Natural Language: Positive Results from Learning about
Positive Evidence"
by Nick Chater at Univ Coll London:
http://eprints.pascal-network.org/archive/00002798/01/jmp06.pdf

His claim is that an ideal learner, using Kolmogorov complexity methods, can
provide both the positive and the negative learning needed for an ideal
learner, even though only given positive evidence.  The absence of evidence
for certain constructions is treated as evidence that those constructions
are ungrammatical.  

Comments appreciated.  

Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
http://www.EnglishLogicKernel.com





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