Seda Demirel, A Computational Study on Accusativity and Ergativity
This study investigates the potential outcomes when children are exposed to hypothetical English, i.e. ergative English rather than accusative English, in the language acquisition process by using a child-directed speech data set. Based on the data set, English grammar is constructed with syntactic and semantic structures. Subsequently, some parts are modified for the hypothetical English. Following this, a model is trained to generate sentences with their corresponding syntactic and semantic structures. After the training, a comparative analysis is conducted to determine the predominant category—accusative or ergative—in children's language acquisition.
Date: 22.04.2024 Place: B-116