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I definitely agree that universal grammar has been dying a long slow death, but despite press coverage, I suspect universalists are the minority nowadays. Eithe
by XaspR8d 11y ago
I definitely agree that universal grammar has been dying a long slow death, but despite press coverage, I suspect universalists are the minority nowadays. Either way I hardly think linguistics has ignored AI/machine learning. In general there's an anticipation of eventual synergy between the domains, but ML has yet to magically solve the "poverty of stimulus" issues with pattern recognition that originally prompted hypotheses like UG...
- shmageggy 11y agoAh sorry, by "entire field" I meant the subset of linguists who are doing this kind of research. And I agree that AI/ML hasn't solved every problem raised by the poverty of the stimulus, but more importantly I think it is clear at this point that we should be framing these phenomena in terms of learning and inductive biases rather than solely in terms of UG.
- panglott 11y agoThe "poverty of the stimulus" is no more than a dubious hypothesis.