Learning multiple rules simultaneously: Affixes are more salient than reduplications.
Language learners encounter numerous opportunities to learn regularities, but need to decide which of these regularities to learn, because some are not productive in their native language. Here, we present an account of rule learning based on perceptual and memory primitives (Endress, Dehaene-Lamber...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 508 - 528 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=122082410&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 122082410 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2017 vid: 45 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 122082410 10.3758/s13421-016-0669-9 ppf: 508 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 720KB tig: atl: Learning multiple rules simultaneously: Affixes are more salient than reduplications. aug: au: Gervain, Judit Endress, Ansgar affil: Department of Psychology , City, University of London , Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB UK su: Cognition Comparative grammar Language acquisition Learning Memory Speech perception sug: subj: Cognition Comparative grammar Language acquisition Learning Memory Speech perception keyword: Artificial grammar learning Bayesian learning Edges Perceptual or memory primitives Rule-learning Artificial grammar learning Bayesian learning Edges Perceptual or memory primitives Rule-learning ab: Language learners encounter numerous opportunities to learn regularities, but need to decide which of these regularities to learn, because some are not productive in their native language. Here, we present an account of rule learning based on perceptual and memory primitives (Endress, Dehaene-Lambertz, & Mehler, Cognition, 105(3), 577-614, 2007; Endress, Nespor, & Mehler, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(8), 348-353, 2009), suggesting that learners preferentially learn regularities that are more salient to them, and that the pattern of salience reflects the frequency of language features across languages. We contrast this view with previous artificial grammar learning research, which suggests that infants 'choose' the regularities they learn based on rational, Bayesian criteria (Frank & Tenenbaum, Cognition, 120(3), 360-371, 2013; Gerken, Cognition, 98(3)B67-B74, 2006, Cognition, 115(2), 362-366, 2010). In our experiments, adult participants listened to syllable strings starting with a syllable reduplication and always ending with the same 'affix' syllable, or to syllable strings starting with this 'affix' syllable and ending with the 'reduplication'. Both affixation and reduplication are frequently used for morphological marking across languages. We find three crucial results. First, participants learned both regularities simultaneously. Second, affixation regularities seemed easier to learn than reduplication regularities. Third, regularities in sequence offsets were easier to learn than regularities at sequence onsets. We show that these results are inconsistent with previous Bayesian rule learning models, but mesh well with the perceptual or memory primitives view. Further, we show that the pattern of salience revealed in our experiments reflects the distribution of regularities across languages. Ease of acquisition might thus be one determinant of the frequency of regularities across languages. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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