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title: "A Computer Model of Child Language Acquisition"
authors:
  - "Mallory Selfridge"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/20"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0020.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "92-95"
track: "Learning"
keywords:
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# A Computer Model of Child Language Acquisition

Mallory Selfridge

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 92-95.

## Abstract

Children learn d~fferent aspects of language in a characteristic order, . and make cnaracteristic errors during acquisition. This paper focusses on five specific data, and explains these data in terms or two hypotheses regarding the relationship of comprehension to generation and the relationship between meaning and syntax. A computer model, CHILD, is described wnich embodies these hypotheses and which manifests the same five data. CHILD's performance suggests that the explanations are plaus~ble.