Abstract
One of the most pressing questions in cognitive science remains unanswered: what cognitive mechanisms enable children to learn any of the world’s 7000 or so languages? Much discovery has been made with regard to specific learning mechanisms in specific languages, however, given the remarkable diversity of language structures (Evans and Levinson 2009, Bickel 2014) the burning question remains: what are the underlying processes that make language acquisition possible, despite substantial cross-linguistic variation in phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.? To investigate these questions, a comprehensive cross-linguistic database of longitudinal child language acquisition corpora from maximally diverse languages has been built.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1700
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4423–4429
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1700
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Steven Moran. 2016. The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4423–4429, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language (Moran, LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/L16-1700.pdf