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    "pk": 31864,
    "title": "Are Children 'Lazy Learners'? A Comparison of Natural and Machine Learning of Stress",
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    "abstract": "Do children acquire rules for main stress assignment or do \nthey learn stress in an exemplar-based way? In the \nlanguage acquisition literature, the former approach has \nbeen advocated without exception: although they hear \nmost words produced with their appropriate stress pattern, \nchildren are taken to extract rules and do not store stress \npatterns lexically. The evidence for a rule-based approach \nis investigated and it will be argued that in the literature \nthis approach is preferred due to an extremely simplified \ninterpretation of exemplar-based models. W e will report \nexperiments showing that Instance-Based Learning, an \nexemplar-based model, makes the same kinds of stress \nrelated errors in production that children make: (i) the \namount of production errors is related to metrical \nmarkedness, and (ii) stress shifts and errors with respect to \nthe segmental and syllabic structure of words typically take \nthe form of a regularization of stress patterns. InstanceBased Learning belongs to a class of Lazy Learning \nalgorithms. In these algorithms, no explicit abstractions \nin the form of decision trees or rules are derived; \nabstraction is driven by similarity during performance. \nOur results indicate that at least for this domain, this kind \nof lazy learning is a valid alternative to rule-based \nlearning. Moreover the results plead for a reanalysis of \nlanguage acquisition data in terms of exemplar-based \nmodels.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Refereed Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Steven",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gillis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Walter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Daelemans",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gert",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Durieux",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Antwerp",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1994-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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