An Information-Theoretic Solution to Parameter Setting*

In this paper, we point out a possible way by which the child could obtain the target values of the word order parameters for her language. The essential idea is an entropy-based statistical analysis of the input stream. Comments University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-93-07. This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/ircs_reports/16