[HTML][HTML] The cognitive roots of regularization in language

V Ferdinand, S Kirby, K Smith - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Regularization occurs when the output a learner produces is less variable than the linguistic
data they observed. In an artificial language learning experiment, we show that there exist at …

Fast but not furious. When sped up bit rate of information drives rule induction

S Radulescu, A Kotsolakou, F Wijnen, S Avrutin… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The language abilities of young and adult learners range from memorizing specific items to
finding statistical regularities between them (item-bound generalization) and generalizing …

[PDF][PDF] Fast but Not Furious

S Radulescu, A Kotsolakou, F Wijnen… - When Sped Up Bit …, 2021 - academia.edu
Both young and adult learners possess a domain-general distributional learning mechanism
for finding statistical patterns in the input (Saffran et al., 1996; Thiessen and Saffran, 2007) …

[PDF][PDF] Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Syntactic Constructions

Z Liu, E Morgan - Society for Computation in …, 2021 - openpublishing.library.umass.edu
Previous research has suggested language users tend to have consistent ordering
preferences given a syntactic construction with different grammatical alternatives (eg within …