Information Compression as a Unifying Principle in Human Learning, Perception, and Cognition

Figure 16

Categories of utterances involved in the learning of a first language, L. In ascending order size, they are the finite sample of utterances from which a child learns, the (infinite) set of utterances in L, and the (infinite) set of all possible utterances. Adapted from Figure 7.1 in [98], with permission.