PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bootstrapping (Linguistics), Dan Slobin, Universal Grammar

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Slobin: operating principles (like constraints) are built in the system the principles that are built in are as followed: Pay attention to the endings of words. Slots filled via semantic bootstrapping (semantic bootstrapping: using words. Knowing objects and agents allows for word order. Problem is that sentences do not always label what is happening in front of child. But could be learned from environment. look at kids overgeneralization errors usually around 2. Because it does not occur in adult speech. I went to the store (memorizing what adults say then they explore other words and then realize the first was proper) Proof children are learning a rule, not just rote learning. Communicative intent and pattern recognition is all you need. Grammar is not built in the system but what is innate is your social and pattern ability. When you can extract patterns of a speech, it"s just statistical learning that is innate (pattern) nothing unique to language.