The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure:Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'
| Autor: | Laura Doherty, Ruth A. Berman, Soumitra Samanta, Dani Bekman, Seth Campbell, Clifton Pye, Tomoko Tatsumi, Mario Marroquín Pelíz, Stewart M. McCauley, Sindy Fabiola Can Pixabaj, Shira Zicherman, Pedro Mateo Pedro, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Ben Ambridge, Ramya Maitreyee, Colin Bannard, Margarita Julajuj Mendoza, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Amir Efrati, Kumiko Fukumura, Inbal Arnon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Causative Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Article 03 medical and health sciences Judgment 0302 clinical medicine Japan Verb semantics English Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Hebrew Child Language Hindi Structure (mathematical logic) Child language acquisition 05 social sciences Entrenchment language.human_language Linguistics Semantics Child Preschool K'iche language Japanese Preemption Grammaticality Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sentence |
| Zdroj: | Ambridge, B, Tatsumi, T, Doherty, L, Maitreyee, R, Bannard, C, Samanta, S, McCauley, S, Arnon, I, Zicherman, S, Bekman, D, Efrati, A, Berman, R, Narasimhan, B, Sharma, D M, Nair, R B, Fukumura, K, Campbell, S, Pye, C, Pedro, P M, Pixabaj, S F C, Pelíz, M M & Mendoza, M J 2020, ' The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure : Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche' ', Cognition, vol. 202, 104310 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104310, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104310 Cognition |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104310 |
| Popis: | This preregistered study tested three theoretical proposals for how children form productive yet restricted linguistic generalizations, avoiding errors such as *The clown laughed the man, across three age groups (5–6 years, 9–10 years, adults) and five languages (English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'). Participants rated, on a five-point scale, correct and ungrammatical sentences describing events of causation (e.g., *Someone laughed the man; Someone made the man laugh; Someone broke the truck; ?Someone made the truck break). The verb-semantics hypothesis predicts that, for all languages, by-verb differences in acceptability ratings will be predicted by the extent to which the causing and caused event (e.g., amusing and laughing) merge conceptually into a single event (as rated by separate groups of adult participants). The entrenchment and preemption hypotheses predict, for all languages, that by-verb differences in acceptability ratings will be predicted by, respectively, the verb's relative overall frequency, and frequency in nearly-synonymous constructions (e.g., X made Y laugh for *Someone laughed the man). Analysis using mixed effects models revealed that entrenchment/preemption effects (which could not be distinguished due to collinearity) were observed for all age groups and all languages except K'iche', which suffered from a thin corpus and showed only preemption sporadically. All languages showed effects of event-merge semantics, except K'iche' which showed only effects of supplementary semantic predictors. We end by presenting a computational model which successfully simulates this pattern of results in a single discriminative-learning mechanism, achieving by-verb correlations of around r = 0.75 with human judgment data. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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