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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Jones, Gary; Gobet, Fernand; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Increasing working memory (WM) capacity is often cited as a major influence on children's development and yet WM capacity is difficult to examine independently of long-term knowledge. A computational model of children's nonword repetition (NWR) performance is presented that independently manipulates long-term knowledge and WM capacity to determine…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Computer Simulation, Child Development, Models
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Freudenthal, Daniel; Pine, Julian M.; Aguado-Orea, Javier; Gobet, Fernand – Cognitive Science, 2007
In this study, we apply MOSAIC (model of syntax acquisition in children) to the simulation of the developmental patterning of children's optional infinitive (OI) errors in 4 languages: English, Dutch, German, and Spanish. MOSAIC, which has already simulated this phenomenon in Dutch and English, now implements a learning mechanism that better…
Descriptors: German, Spanish, Indo European Languages, English
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Freudenthal, Daniel; Pine, Julian M.; Gobet, Fernand – Cognitive Science, 2006
In this study we use a computational model of language learning called model of syntax acquisition in children (MOSAIC) to investigate the extent to which the optional infinitive (OI) phenomenon in Dutch and English can be explained in terms of a resource-limited distributional analysis of Dutch and English child-directed speech. The results show…
Descriptors: Children, Indo European Languages, English, Syntax