... first to evaluate a model of child syntactic- semantic acquisition by parsing unseen data Models of child word learning have focused on semantics only, learning word meanings from utterances paired ... Work Models of syntactic acquisition, whether they have addressed the task of learning both syntax and semantics (Siskind, 1992; Villavicencio, 2002; Buttery, 2006) or syntax alone (Gibson and ... procedure has two parts: logical splitting of the category semantics h; and syntactic splitting of the syntactic category X Each logical split of h is a pair of lambda expressions (f, g) in the following...