Timothy Ho
University of California, Irvine
2 Papers
2 Citations
Timothy Ho is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Knowledge representation and reasoning & Grammar. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications.
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An argument from acquisition: Comparing English metrical stress representations by how learnable they are from child-directed speech
TL;DR: It is found that while all three theories of metrical stress representation are only somewhat useful at the initial stages of stress acquisition, they are far more useful at later stages and define a grammar able to capture the vast majority of English children’s acquisitional intake.
More learnable than thou? Testing metrical phonology representations with childdirected speech
Lisa Pearl,Timothy Ho,Zephyr Detrano +2 more
- 09 Feb 2014
TL;DR: For instance, the authors show that if a child already has access to the knowledge representation (KR), the hypothesis space of grammars that could encode the regularities of the language is already defined, and the child can focus her attention on simply selecting the appropriate instantiation of the KR (i.e., the language-specific grammar), based on those relevant variables.