title: Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: the case of anaphoric one.
abstract: It is widely held that children's linguistic input underdetermines the correct grammar, and that language learning must therefore be guided by innate linguistic constraints. Here, we show that a Bayesian model can learn a standard poverty-of-stimulus example, anaphoric one, from realistic input by relying on indirect evidence, without a linguistic constraint assumed to be necessary. Our demonstration does, however, assume other linguistic knowledge; thus, we reduce the problem of learning anaphoric one to that of learning this other knowledge. We discuss whether this other knowledge may itself be acquired without linguistic constraints.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
authors.forename: Stephani
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Foraker
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Regier
authors.forename: Naveen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khetarpal
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perfors
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tenenbaum