TY - GEN
T1 - Acquisition of desires before beliefs
T2 - 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2013
AU - Barak, Libby
AU - Fazly, Afsaneh
AU - Stevenson, Suzanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The acquisition of Belief verbs lags behind the acquisition of Desire verbs in children. Some psycholinguistic theories attribute this lag to conceptual differences between the two classes, while others suggest that syntactic differences are responsible. Through computational experiments, we show that a probabilistic verb learning model exhibits the pattern of acquisition, even though there is no difference in the model in the difficulty of the semantic or syntactic properties of Belief vs. Desire verbs. Our results point to the distributional properties of various verb classes as a potentially important, and heretofore unexplored, factor in the observed developmental lag of Belief verbs.
AB - The acquisition of Belief verbs lags behind the acquisition of Desire verbs in children. Some psycholinguistic theories attribute this lag to conceptual differences between the two classes, while others suggest that syntactic differences are responsible. Through computational experiments, we show that a probabilistic verb learning model exhibits the pattern of acquisition, even though there is no difference in the model in the difficulty of the semantic or syntactic properties of Belief vs. Desire verbs. Our results point to the distributional properties of various verb classes as a potentially important, and heretofore unexplored, factor in the observed developmental lag of Belief verbs.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85007193970
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85007193970
T3 - CoNLL 2013 - 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings
SP - 231
EP - 240
BT - CoNLL 2013 - 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 8 August 2013 through 9 August 2013
ER -