In order to acquire a lexicon, young children must segment speech into words, even though
most words are unfamiliar to them. This is a non-trivial task because speech lacks any …

This thesis presents a computational theory of unsupervised language acquisition, precisely
defining procedures for learning language from ordinary spoken or written utterances, with …

When phonological rules are regarded as declarative descriptions, it is possible to construct
a model of phonology in which rules and representations are no longer distinguished and …

Children learn their native language by exposure to their linguistic and communicative
environment, but apparently without requiring that their mistakes be corrected. Such learning …

We propose an explicit, incremental strategy by which children could group words with
similar syntactic privileges into discrete, unlabeled categories. This strategy, which can …

This paper describes in detail an algorithm for the unsupervised learning of natural
language morphology, with emphasis on challenges that are encountered in languages …

Computational phonology studies sound patterns in the world's languages from a
computational perspective. This article shows that the similarities between different …

Gold's [1967. Language identification in the limit. Information and Control, 16, 447–474]
celebrated work on learning in the limit has been taken, by many cognitive scientists, to have …

This dissertation demonstrates that significant classes of phonotactic patterns—patterns
found over contiguous sounds, patterns found over non-contiguous segments (ie long …

This paper presents a previously unnoticed universal property of stress patterns in the
world's languages: they are, for small neighbourhoods, neighbourhood-distinct …