The cultural evolution of language

M Tamariz, S Kirby - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Key design features of language can be explained as the result of cultural
evolution.•Experiments have found that structure emerges through transmission and …

Balancing effort and information transmission during language acquisition: Evidence from word order and case marking

M Fedzechkina, EL Newport, TF Jaeger - Cognitive science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Across languages of the world, some grammatical patterns have been argued to be more
common than expected by chance. These are sometimes referred to as (statistical) language …

Language learning, language use and the evolution of linguistic variation

K Smith, A Perfors, O Fehér… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Linguistic universals arise from the interaction between the processes of language learning
and language use. A test case for the relationship between these factors is linguistic …

Putting old tools to novel uses: The role of form accessibility in semantic extension

Z Harmon, V Kapatsinski - Cognitive Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
An increase in frequency of a form has been argued to result in semantic extension (Bybee,
2003; Zipf, 1949). Yet, research on the acquisition of lexical semantics suggests that a form …

[图书][B] Changing minds changing tools: From learning theory to language acquisition to language change

V Kapatsinski - 2018 - books.google.com
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of
language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition …

Modality and stimulus effects on distributional statistical learning: Sound vs. sight, time vs. space

H Zhou, S Van der Ham, B De Boer, L Bogaerts… - Journal of Memory and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Statistical learning (SL) is postulated to play an important role in the process of language
acquisition as well as in other cognitive functions. It was found to enable learning of various …

What is grammar like? A usage-based constructionist perspective

V Kapatsinski - Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2014 - aclanthology.org
This paper is intended to elucidate some implications of usage-based linguistic theory for
statistical and computational models of language acquisition, focusing on morphology and …

When extremists win: Cultural transmission via iterated learning when populations are heterogeneous

DJ Navarro, A Perfors, A Kary, SD Brown… - Cognitive …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
How does the process of information transmission affect the cultural or linguistic products
that emerge? This question is often studied experimentally and computationally via iterated …

A multimodel inference approach to categorical variant choice: Construction, priming and frequency effects on the choice between full and contracted forms of am, are …

D Barth, V Kapatsinski - Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2017 - degruyter.com
The present paper presents a multimodel inference approach to linguistic variation,
expanding on prior work by Kuperman and Bresnan (2012). We argue that corpus data often …

Adult regularization of inconsistent input depends on pragmatic factors

A Perfors - Language Learning and Development, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In a variety of domains, adults who are given input that is only partially consistent do not
discard the inconsistent portion (regularize) but rather maintain the probability of consistent …