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Infinite use of finite means? Evaluating the generalization of center embedding learned from an artificial grammar

2021-05-11

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<p>Human language is often assumed to make "infinite use of finite means" - that is, to generate an infinite number of possible utterances from a finite number of building blocks. From an acquisition perspective, this assumed property of language is interesting because learners must acquire their languages from a finite number of examples. To acquire an infinite language, learners must therefore generalize beyond...

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Literature Corpus work: 93eff3b3-2ce6-53e8-aac8-8f2e568f143f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/r8ct2

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