{"pk":32226,"title":"Cue-based learners in parametric language systems: application of general results in a recently proposed learning algorithm based on unambiguous 'superparsing'","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Cue-based learners have often been proposed as models of language acquisition by linguists working within the Principles and Parameters framework. Drawing on a general theory of cue-based learners described in detail elsewhere (Bertolo et al., 1997), we show here that a recently proposed learning algorithm (Fodor's Structural Triggers Learner (1997)) is an instance of a cue-based learner and that it is therefore unable to learn systems of linguistic parameters that have been proved to be beyond the reach of any cue-based learner We demonstrate this analytically, by investigating the behavior of the STL on a linguistically plausible space of syntactic parameters.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pm0h3rz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stefano","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bertolo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences - MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Broihier","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universitat Regensburg","department":""},{"first_name":"Edward","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gibson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Kenneth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wexler","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1997-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32226/galley/23291/download/"}]}