Organism Language Acquisition: A Staged, Self-Correcting Approach
Children learn any language gradually and in order as soon as they are born, such as sounds, then words, then simple rules (household, societal norms etc.), then more complex things, each stage building from the past lessons they’ve learnt. Once a child internalizes a rule rather than just memorizing examples without a context or a pattern, they produce forms they've never heard before, which shows the rule is being applied rather than text being retrieved. From here I built an idea to teach the organism in stages instead of exposing it to the whole corpus at once, starting with basic word categories and simple patterns and building up to complex grammar. After each stage, let it generate its own attempts, the way a child babbles at first attempts, and use its own judgment faculty (already at high accuracy at telling good sentences from bad) as the feedback signal that reinforces which self-generated constructions are valid. No external correction or backpropagation needed, since the "teacher" is the organism's own existing judgment module which basically just pointed at its own output. This way the grammar becomes an applicable rule and correctly applies this rule to produce something well-formed and genuinely new at the same time. A second idea: Pair each stage with a simple attempt, self-check, revise loop, like how children correct themselves while learning to talk. If the organism can revise its own output and keep only what still works, that gives a clear, measurable sign that it is really composing something new.