Authors: Raman Chandrasekar
Publish Date: 2008/09/20
Volume: 13, Issue: 5, Pages: 430-
Abstract
There have been many theories about how children learn to use language Professor Narasimhan proposed a theory of child language acquisition based on behavioural pragmatics In this article we present a simplified version of his theories about how children learn to communicate to describe manipulate and explore the world around them from exposure to variety of language utterances and nonverbal inputs such as gestures and pointing We also discuss the method he used to substantiate his ideas and briefly present a computational model of the ideas arising from his work
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