Questions related to language acquisition have been of interest for many centuries, as children seem to acquire a sophisticated capacity for processing language

How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational

This volume is concerned with how ambiguity and ambiguity resolution are learned, that is, with the acquisition of the different representations of ambiguous li

This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified perfo

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children int