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SUBMITTER: Ibsen-Jensen R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5908541 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ibsen-Jensen Rasmus R Tkadlec Josef J Chatterjee Krishnendu K Nowak Martin A MA
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20180301 140
We consider a class of students learning a language from a teacher. The situation can be interpreted as a group of child learners receiving input from the linguistic environment. The teacher provides sample sentences. The students try to learn the grammar from the teacher. In addition to just listening to the teacher, the students can also communicate with each other. The students hold hypotheses about the grammar and change them if they receive counter evidence. The process stops when all stude ...[more]