• How Grammars Grow: Argument Structure and the Acquisition of Non-Basic Syntax 

  Perkins, Laurel (2019)

  This dissertation examines the acquisition of argument structure as a window into the role of development in grammar learning. The way that children represent the data for language acquisition depends on the grammatical ...

• An Affiliative Model of Early Lexical Learning 

  Tripp, Alayo (2019)

  In defining the language acquisition problem, traditional models abstract away effects of variability, defining the learner as acquiring a single language variety, which is spoken homogeneously by their speech community. ...

• How to use context for phonetic learning and perception from naturalistic speech 

  Hitczenko, Katarzyna (2019)

  Infants learn about the sounds of their language and adults process the sounds they hear, even though sound categories often overlap in their acoustics. This dissertation is about how contextual information (e.g. who spoke ...

• Variation and learnability in constraints on A-bar movement 

  Huang, Zhipeng (Nick) (2019)

  A classic problem in linguistics is explaining how learners come to know so much about their native languages, despite receiving limited and noisy input. This learning problem becomes especially acute when the linguistic ...

• WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION WITHIN A MULTILINGUAL FRAMEWORK 

  Diab, Mona Talat (2003)

  Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the process of resolving the meaning of a word unambiguously in a given natural language context. Within the scope of this thesis, it is the process of marking text with explicit sense ...

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