Monaghan, Padraic and Christiansen, Morten H. (2005) What
distributional information is useful and usable for language
acquisition? In: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual
conference of the Cognitive Science Society. : August 4-7 2004,
Chicago, Illinois. LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC PUBL, MAHWAH, pp.
963-968. ISBN 9780805854640Full text not available from this
repository. Numerous theories of language acquisition have
indicated that distributional information is extremely valuable
for assisting the child to learn syntactic categories, yet these
theories differ over the type of information that is proposed as
useful in acquisition. Mintz (2003) has proposed that children
utilize the previous word and the following word (AxB frames)
for acquiring categories, whereas Monaghan, Chater, and
Christiansen (submitted) have suggested that information about
the previous word alone provides a rich source of data for
categorization. In three modeling experiments we found that
bigrams were better than fixed AxB frames for le