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Research Topics

Language Acquisition
Models of Acquirability
Linguistic Cues to Information about the World
Foundations

Publications

Pearl, L. (forthcoming) Learning English Metrical Phonology: When Probability Distributions Are Not Enough, Proceedings of GALANA 3, Cascadilla Press.
Pearl, L. (forthcoming) Using computational modeling in language acquisition research, Experimental Methods in Language Acquistion Research, Benjamins.
Pearl, L. & Lidz, J. (2009) When domain general learning fails and when it succeeds: Identifying the contribution of domain specificity, Language Learning and Development, 5(4), 235-265.
Pearl, L. (2008) Putting the Emphasis on Unambiguous: The Feasibility of Data Filtering for Learning English Metrical Phonology, BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, Chan, H., Jacob, H., and Kapia, E (eds.), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 390-401.
Pearl, L. & Weinberg, A. (2007) Input Filtering in Syntactic Acquisition: Answers from Language Change Modeling, Language Learning and Development, 3(1), 43-72.
Pearl, L. (2005) The Input to Syntactic Acquisition: Solutions from Language Change Modeling, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1-9.
Pearl, L. (2005) Addressing Acquisition from Language Change: A Modeling Perspective, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 11.1.


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