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Explore a thought-provoking lecture on language acquisition that challenges the notion of "starting small" in language learning. Delve into connectionist simulations that contradict Elman's findings and Newport's "less is more" theory of critical period effects. Examine how recurrent networks can learn language structure without the need for limited initial cognitive resources. Discover how graded semantic constraints in more natural language scenarios actually hinder acquisition when starting small. Investigate how apparent critical-period effects may arise from the entrenchment of representations learned from other tasks or languages. Learn about a large-scale simulation demonstrating how implicit prediction during sentence comprehension can indirectly train sentence production. Gain insights into how language learning may succeed without innate maturational constraints or explicit negative evidence by leveraging indirect negative evidence available through online implicit prediction.
