LSLT: Laurel Perkins (LING)

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Mind the gap: Computationally investigating how infants acquire syntactic dependencies

The same types of syntactic dependencies can look very different within and across languages. For example, English normally puts objects after verbs (You are eating a cookie), but sometimes a wh-word can act as the verb's object at a distance: What are you eating? In this talk, I'll present some new computational work investigating how infants learn to identify different kinds of syntactic dependencies in their language.