An Information-Theoretic Solution to Parameter Setting*

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Brill, Eric D
Kapur, Shyam
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In this paper, we point out a possible way by which the child could obtain the target values of the word order parameters for her language. The essential idea is an entropy-based statistical analysis of the input stream.

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1993-04-29
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University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-93-07.
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