一作ACL 2026Poster· Natural Language Processing
Function Words as Statistical Cues for Language Learning
Xiulin Yang · Heidi R. Getz · Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
摘要
What statistical properties might support learning abstract grammatical knowledge from linear input? We address this question by examining the statistical distribution of function words. Function words have been argued to aid acquisition through three distributional properties: high frequency, re...