The developing infant creates a curriculum for statistical learning

LB Smith, S Jayaraman, E Clerkin, C Yu - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
New efforts are using head cameras and eye-trackers worn by infants to capture everyday
visual environments from the point of view of the infant learner. From this vantage point, the …

Good-enough language production

AE Goldberg, F Ferreira - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills,
but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever …

[图书][B] Explain me this: Creativity, competition, and the partial productivity of constructions

AE Goldberg - 2019 - books.google.com
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Iterated learning and the evolution of language

S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Iterated learning describes the process whereby an individual learns their behaviour by
exposure to another individual's behaviour, who themselves learnt it in the same way. It can …

How language production shapes language form and comprehension

MC MacDonald - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

Regularizing unpredictable variation: The roles of adult and child learners in language formation and change

CL Hudson Kam, EL Newport - Language learning and …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
In this article we investigate what learners acquire when their input contains inconsistent
grammatical morphemes such as those present in pidgins and incipient creoles. In …

Statistical learning: From acquiring specific items to forming general rules

RN Aslin, EL Newport - Current directions in psychological …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Statistical learning is a rapid and robust mechanism that enables adults and infants to
extract patterns embedded in both language and visual domains. Statistical learning …

Age effects in second language learning: Stepping stones toward better understanding

RM DeKeyser - Language learning, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of age of acquisition on ultimate attainment in second language learning has
been a controversial topic for years. After providing a very brief overview of the ideas that are …

Learning biases predict a word order universal

J Culbertson, P Smolensky, G Legendre - Cognition, 2012 - Elsevier
How recurrent typological patterns, or universals, emerge from the extensive diversity found
across the world's languages constitutes a central question for linguistics and cognitive …

The effects of feature‐label‐order and their implications for symbolic learning

M Ramscar, D Yarlett, M Dye, K Denny… - Cognitive …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Symbols enable people to organize and communicate about the world. However, the ways
in which symbolic knowledge is learned and then represented in the mind are poorly …