Lexical Learning by Error Detection

Abstract

The learning theory described here addresses the learning of lexical entries for certain predicational terms. Through characterizing input to the language learner in terms of conceptual structure-syntactic structure pairs, and evidence in terms of the technically defined construct detectable lexical error, the process outlined by the theory functions through error detection based on positive-only evidence. Learning is achieved when the learner has no occasion to reject newly formed lexical entries; this is the situation when lexical entries for all designated morphology (affixes and prepositions) are correctly acquired. The functioning of the theory is exemplified through a discussion of the learning schema, with particular attention to varying lexicalization patterns.

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