TY - BOOK ID - 386199 TI - Experience, variation and generalization AU - Arnon, Inbal AU - Clark, Eve V PY - 2011 SN - 9789027234773 9027234779 9789027285041 9027285047 1283174790 9786613174796 9781283174794 6613174793 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Language acquisition KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Language acquisition. KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Acquisition KW - Interpersonal communication in children UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:386199 AB - Theories of language acquisition must address the role of constraints in children's learning. Are they language-specific or domain-general? Do they come from the learner or are do they result from external factors like the nature of the data? In this chapter we describe how Bayesian modeling may be used to explore this issue. The Bayesian framework has been useful for determining what an ideal learner might be able to learn given a certain set of specific constraints and a certain type of input. It also provides a natural way to compare the effect of different constraints, and to grow towards increasingly cognitively natural models by altering those constraints. Keywords: Learning constraints; Bayesian modeling. ER -