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Isbilen, Erin S.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2022
Statistical learning is a key concept in our understanding of language acquisition. Ample work has highlighted its role in numerous linguistic functions--yet statistical learning is not a unitary construct, and its consistency across different language properties remains unclear. In a meta-analysis of auditory-linguistic statistical learning…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Statistics, Meta Analysis, Auditory Stimuli
Jolsvai, Hajnal; McCauley, Stewart M.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2020
Whereas a growing bulk of work has demonstrated that both adults and children are sensitive to frequently occurring word sequences, little is known about the potential role of meaning in the processing of such multiword chunks. Here, we take a first step toward assessing the contribution of meaningfulness in the processing of multiword sequences,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Prediction, Decision Making
Isbilen, Erin S.; McCauley, Stewart M.; Kidd, Evan; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2020
The computations involved in statistical learning have long been debated. Here, we build on work suggesting that a basic memory process, "chunking," may account for the processing of statistical regularities into larger units. Drawing on methods from the memory literature, we developed a novel paradigm to test statistical learning by…
Descriptors: Statistics, Cognitive Processes, Teaching Methods, Recall (Psychology)
Poletiek, Fenna H.; Conway, Christopher M.; Ellefson, Michelle R.; Lai, Jun; Bocanegra, Bruno R.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2018
It has been suggested that external and/or internal limitations paradoxically may lead to superior learning, that is, the concepts of "starting small" and "less is more" (Elman, 1993; Newport, 1990). In this paper, we explore the type of incremental ordering during training that might help learning, and what mechanism explains…
Descriptors: Grammar, Artificial Languages, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
Fitneva, Stanka A.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Intuitively, the accuracy of initial word-referent mappings should be positively correlated with the outcome of learning. Yet recent evidence suggests an inverse effect of initial accuracy in adults, whereby greater accuracy of initial mappings is associated with poorer outcomes in a cross-situational learning task. Here, we examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Individual Development, Age Differences, Accuracy
Onnis, Luca; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Language acquisition may be one of the most difficult tasks that children face during development. They have to segment words from fluent speech, figure out the meanings of these words, and discover the syntactic constraints for joining them together into meaningful sentences. Over the past couple of decades, computational modeling has emerged as…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Phonology, Computational Linguistics
Reali, Florencia; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2005
The poverty of stimulus argument is one of the most controversial arguments in the study of language acquisition. Here we follow previous approaches challenging the assumption of impoverished primary linguistic data, focusing on the specific problem of auxiliary (AUX) fronting in complex polar interrogatives. We develop a series of corpus analyses…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Stimulus Generalization