Computational approaches to word retrieval in bilinguals. Issue 4 (August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: ABUTALEBI, JUBIN; CLAHSEN, HARALD
• Is Part Of: Bilingualism. Volume 22:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 655
• Page End: 656
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Subjects: Bilingualism -- Periodicals; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; Language acquisition -- Periodicals; 404.2
• DOI: 10.1017/S1366728919000221
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1366-7289

Abstract

Abstract : The cognitive architecture of human language processing has been studied for decades, but using computational modeling for such studies is a relatively recent topic. Indeed, computational approaches to language processing have become increasingly popular in our field, mainly due to advances in computational modeling techniques and the availability of large collections of experimental data. Language learning, particularly child language learning, has been the subject of many computational models. By simulating the process of child language learning, computational models may indeed teach us which linguistic representations are learnable from the input that children have access to (and which are not), as well as which mechanisms yield the same patterns of behavior that are found in children's language performance.