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Research Topics

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

Pearl, L., & Steyvers, M. (forthcoming). Detecting Authorship Deception: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach Using Author Writeprints, Literary and Linguistic Computing.
Pearl, L. & Lidz, J. (forthcoming - updated 12/12/11). Parameters in Language Acquisition, In K. Grohmann & C. Boeckx (eds), The Cambridge Handbook on Biolinguistics.
Pearl, L. & Goldwater, S. (forthcoming - updated 12/1/11). Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition, In J. Lidz, W. Snyder, & C. Pater (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics.
Pearl, L. & Sprouse, J. (forthcoming - updated 2/1/12). Computational Models of Acquisition for Islands, In J. Sprouse & N. Hornstein (eds), Experimental Syntax and Islands Effects. Cambridge University Press.
Pearl, L., Goldwater, S., & Steyvers, M. (2011). Online Learning Mechanisms for Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation, Research on Language and Computation, special issue on computational models of language acquisition, 8(2), 107-132. DOI 10.1007/s11168-011-9074-5.
Pearl, L., & Mis, B. (2011). How Far Can Indirect Evidence Take Us? Anaphoric One Revisited, In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 879-884. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Pearl, L. (2011). When unbiased probabilistic learning is not enough: Acquiring a parametric system of metrical phonology. Language Acquisition, 18(2), 87-120.
Pearl, L. (2010). Using computational modeling in language acquisition research, In E. Blom & S. Unsworth (eds). Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research, John Benjamins.
Pearl, L. & Steyvers, M. (2010). Identifying Emotions, Intentions, & Attitudes in Text Using a Game with a Purpose. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text. Los Angeles, CA: NAACL.
Pearl, L., Goldwater, S., & Steyvers, M. (2010). How Ideal Are We? Incorporating Human Limitations into Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation, In In K. Franich, K. Iserman, and L. Keil (eds), Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 315-326.
Pearl, L. (2009). Learning English Metrical Phonology: When Probability Distributions Are Not Enough, In Jean Crawford, Koichi Otaki, and Masahiko Takahashi (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 200-211. (available through the Cascadilla Proceedings Project Website)
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.

Other Useful Things

Pearl_Brent Phonemes corpus: An English child-directed speech corpus of words transcribed into phonemes is available here (zipped file). This corpus was created from the English Brent corpus of CHILDES and can be used for word segmentation studies. This is also available through the derived corpus section of the CHILDES database.
Social Information GWAP database: A small-scale database for tracking social dimensions in text is available here (.xls file).
CHILDES Treebank: A collection of child-directed speech from the CHILDES database annotated with phrase structure trees is available here (.zip file). This was generated as part of NSF grant BCS-0843896, "Testing the Universal Grammar Hypothesis", which you can find out more about here.


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