When Children's Production Deviates From Observed Input: Modeling the Variable Production of the English Past Tense

Libby Barak, Zara Harmon, Naomi H. Feldman, Jan Edwards, Patrick Shafto

Abstract: As children gradually master grammatical rules, they often go through a period of producing form-meaning associations that were not observed in the input. For example, 2- to 3-year-old English-learni...