Words, rules, and mechanisms of language acquisition
| Autor: | Luca L. Bonatti, Ansgar D. Endress |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Computer science
BF computer.software_genre Settore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia dello Sviluppo e Psicologia dell'Educazione Generalization Psychological 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Generalization (learning) Humans Learning Speech Computer Simulation 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Language Cognitive science business.industry Mechanism (biology) General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Association Learning Cognition General Medicine Language acquisition Variety (linguistics) P1 Constructed language Speech Perception Artificial intelligence Syllable Psychological Theory business computer 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Natural language Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | WIREs Cognitive Science. 7:19-35 |
| ISSN: | 1939-5086 1939-5078 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/wcs.1376 |
| Popis: | We review recent artificial language learning studies, especially those following Endress and Bonatti (Endress AD, Bonatti LL. Rapid learning of syllable classes from a perceptually continuous speech stream. Cognition 2007, 105:247-299), suggesting that humans can deploy a variety of learning mechanisms to acquire artificial languages. Several experiments provide evidence for multiple learning mechanisms that can be deployed in fluent speech: one mechanism encodes the positions of syllables within words and can be used to extract generalization, while the other registers co-occurrence statistics of syllables and can be used to break a continuum into its components. We review dissociations between these mechanisms and their potential role in language acquisition. We then turn to recent criticisms of the multiple mechanisms hypothesis and show that they are inconsistent with the available data. Our results suggest that artificial and natural language learning is best understood by dissecting the underlying specialized learning abilities, and that these data provide a rare opportunity to link important language phenomena to basic psychological mechanisms. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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