It takes a village: The role of community size in linguistic regularization
| Autor: | Jayden Ziegler, Jesse Snedeker, Annemarie Kocab |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Computer science Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Artificial language learning computer.software_genre 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Artificial Intelligence Iterated learning Convergence (routing) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Interpersonal Relations Regularization (linguistics) Population Density business.industry Population size 05 social sciences Linguistics Middle Aged Verbal Learning Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Variation (linguistics) Female Artificial intelligence business computer 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Natural language processing Natural language Word order |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive psychology. 114 |
| ISSN: | 1095-5623 |
| Popis: | Studies of artificial language learning provide insight into how learning biases and iterated learning may shape natural languages. Prior work has looked at how learners deal with unpredictable variation and how a language changes across multiple generations of learners. The present study combines these features, exploring how word order variation is preserved or regularized over generations. We investigate how these processes are affected by (1) learning biases, (2) the size of the language community, and (3) the amount of input provided. Our results show that when the input comes from a single speaker, adult learners frequency match, reproducing the variability in the input across three generations. However, when the same amount of input is distributed across multiple speakers, frequency matching breaks down. When regularization occurs, there is a strong bias for SOV word order (relative to OSV and VSO). Finally, when the amount of input provided by multiple speakers is increased, learners are able to frequency match. These results demonstrate that both population size and the amount of input per speaker each play a role in language convergence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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