language acquisition in HPSG

[Adam Przepiorkowski]

Several people have asked about HPSG work on L1 acquisition, and Ash has
mentioned Georgia Green's work.  There is also a whole dissertation on the
topic, which apparently has been ignored / forgotten by the HPSG community:

Nina Wacholder, 1995, "Acquiring Syntactic Generalizations from Positive
Evidence: An HPSG Model", The City University of New York.  (Adviser: Janet
Dean Fodor.)

Here is an excerpt from the abstract:

"This dissertation investigates how children can acquire, from positive
evidence only, a correct grammar which does not miss significant
generalizations or license ungrammatical constructions.  A learning model
based on the GPSG prototype of Fodor (1992) is adapted to HPSG."

Best,

	Adam

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