Language Learning Task

A Language Learning Task is a complex learning task that involves natural language tasks.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a First Language Learning Task to being a Second Language Learning Task.
  • It can range from being a Language Comprehension Learning Task to being a Language Generation Learning Task.
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• Example(s):
  • English Language Learning.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Programming Language Learning.
  • Controlled Vocabulary Learning.
• See: Utterance, Linguistic Expression.

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References

2016

• http://www.salon.com/2016/09/10/what-will-universal-grammar-evidence-rebuts-chomskys-theory-of-language-learning_partner/
  • QUOTE: … A key flaw in Chomsky’s theories is that when applied to language learning, they stipulate that young children come equipped with the capacity to form sentences using abstract grammatical rules. … young children initially speak with only concrete and simple grammatical constructions based on specific patterns of words: “Where’s the X?”; “I wanna X”; “More X”; “It’s an X”; “I’m X-ing it”; “Put X here”; “Mommy’s X-ing it”; “Let’s X it”; “Throw X”; “X gone”; “Mommy X”; “I Xed it”; “Sit on the X”; “Open X”; “X here”; “There’s an X”; “X broken.” Later, children combine these early patterns into more complex ones, such as “Where’s the X that Mommy Xed?” …

1988

• (Moravec, 1988) ⇒ Hans Moravec. (1988). “Mind Children." Harvard University Press. ISBN:9780674576186
  • QUOTE: … unfortunately for humanlike robots, computers are at their worst trying to do the things most natural to humans, such as seeing, hearing, manipulating objects, learning languages, and commonsense reasoning. This dichotomy - machines doing well things human find hard, while doing poorly what is easy for us - is a giant clue to the problem of how to construct an intelligent machine ...

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