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Dawson, Colin; Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2009
Learning must be constrained for it to lead to productive generalizations. Although biology is undoubtedly an important source of constraints, prior experience may be another, leading learners to represent input in ways that are more conducive to some generalizations than others, and/or to up- and down-weight features when entertaining…
Descriptors: Infants, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Stimuli
Richtsmeier, Peter T.; Gerken, LouAnn; Goffman, Lisa; Hogan, Tiffany – Cognition, 2009
Children's early word production is influenced by the statistical frequency of speech sounds and combinations. Three experiments asked whether this production effect can be explained by a perceptual learning mechanism that is sensitive to word-token frequency and/or variability. Four-year-olds were exposed to nonwords that were either frequent…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Word Frequency, Perception, Incidence
Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2006
Two experiments presented infants with artificial language input in which at least two generalizations were logically possible. The results demonstrate that infants made one of the two generalizations tested, the one that was most statistically consistent with the particular subset of the data they received. The experiments shed light on how…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Experiments, Generalization