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Smith, Kenny; Wonnacott, Elizabeth – Cognition, 2010
Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated language learning and use. One prevalent feature of natural languages is that they avoid unpredictable variation. The current work explores whether linguistic predictability might…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Population Distribution, Language Acquisition, Adults
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Seitz, Aaron R.; Protopapas, Athanassios; Tsushima, Yoshiaki; Vlahou, Eleni L.; Gori, Simone; Grossberg, Stephen; Watanabe, Takeo – Cognition, 2010
Learning a second language as an adult is particularly effortful when new phonetic representations must be formed. Therefore the processes that allow learning of speech sounds are of great theoretical and practical interest. Here we examined whether perception of single formant transitions, that is, sound components critical in speech perception,…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition, Identification
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Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2010
Previous work demonstrated that 9-month-olds who were familiarized with 3-syllable strings consistent with both a broader (AAB or ABA) and narrower (AA"di" or A"di"A) generalization made only the latter. Because the narrower generalization is a subset of the broader one, any example that is consistent with the broader generalization but not the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Infants, Decision Making, Generalization
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Warker, Jill A.; Xu, Ye; Dell, Gary S.; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2009
Adults rapidly learn phonotactic constraints from brief production or perception experience. Three experiments asked whether this learning is modality-specific, occurring separately in production and perception, or whether perception transfers to production. Participant pairs took turns repeating syllables in which particular consonants were…
Descriptors: Speech, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Adults
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Lee, Joanne N.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Cognition, 2008
Mandarin Chinese allows pervasive ellipsis of noun arguments (NPs) in discourse, which casts doubt concerning child learners' use of syntax in verb learning. This study investigated whether Mandarin learning children would nonetheless extend verb meanings based on the number of NPs in sentences. Forty-one Mandarin-speaking two- and three-year-olds…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Syntax, Mandarin Chinese
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Kaufman, Scott Barry; DeYoung, Caroline G.; Gray, Jeremy R.; Jimenez, Luis; Brown, Jamie; Mackintosh, Nicholas – Cognition, 2010
The ability to automatically and implicitly detect complex and noisy regularities in the environment is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Despite considerable interest in implicit processes, few researchers have conceptualized implicit learning as an ability with meaningful individual differences. Instead, various researchers (e.g., Reber,…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Structural Equation Models, Associative Learning, Personality
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Saffran, Jenny R.; Pollak, Seth D.; Seibel, Rebecca L.; Shkolnik, Anna – Cognition, 2007
Human infants possess powerful learning mechanisms used for the acquisition of language. To what extent are these mechanisms domain specific? One well-known infant language learning mechanism is the ability to detect and generalize rule-like similarity patterns, such as ABA or ABB [Marcus, G. F., Vijayan, S., Rao, S. B., & Vishton, P. M. (1999).…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes
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Saffran, Jenny; Hauser, Marc; Seibel, Rebecca; Kapfhamer, Joshua; Tsao, Fritz; Cushman, Fiery – Cognition, 2008
There is a surprising degree of overlapping structure evident across the languages of the world. One factor leading to cross-linguistic similarities may be constraints on human learning abilities. Linguistic structures that are easier for infants to learn should predominate in human languages. If correct, then (a) human infants should more readily…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Grammar, Language Patterns, Infants
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Ventura, Paulo; Kolinsky, Regine; Fernandes, Sandra; Querido, Luis; Morais, Jose – Cognition, 2007
Vocabulary growth was suggested to prompt the implementation of increasingly finer-grained lexical representations of spoken words in children (e.g., [Metsala, J. L., & Walley, A. C. (1998). "Spoken vocabulary growth and the segmental restructuring of lexical representations: precursors to phonemic awareness and early reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Reading, Psycholinguistics, Phonemes
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Gomez, Rebecca L.; Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 1999
This study utilized the head-turn preference procedure in four experiments to determine whether 1-year-old infants could extract and remember information from auditory strings produced by miniature artificial grammar. Findings indicated that subjects generalized to the new structure by discriminating new grammatical strings from ungrammatical ones…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Grammar, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Saffran, Jenny R.; Johnson, Elizabeth K.; Aslin, Richard N.; Newport, Elissa L. – Cognition, 1999
Examined whether use of statistical properties of syllable sequences is uniquely tied to linguistic materials for adults and 8-month olds. Found that both groups were able to segment a continuous non-linguistic auditory sequence or tone stream, with performance indistinguishable from that obtained from syllable streams. Results suggests that the…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Infants
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Wilcox, Stephen; Palermo, David S. – Cognition, 1974
Presents evidence that young children's comprehension of the locatives "in", "on", and "under" is, at least in part, contextually determined. Children were given tasks with verbal instructions which were either contextually congruent or incongruent. Results are interpreted in terms of the non-linguistic as well as linguistic strategies apparently…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Acquisition
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Jonsdottir, Maria K.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Assessed Caramazza and Miceli's graphemic buffer organization theory by comparing the performance of two patients with graphemic buffer disorder. Noted effects of orthographic structure, deletions, insertions, and transposition. Found that neuropsychological evidence does not at present support the concept of the orthographic syllable. (MOK)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Language Skills, Learning Problems
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Nazzi, Thierry – Cognition, 2005
The present study explores the issue of the use of phonetic specificity in the process of learning new words at 20 months of age. The procedure used follows Nazzi and Gopnik [Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2001). Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: When does language become a tool for categorization? "Cognition," 80, B11-B20].…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability, Vowels
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Regier, Terry; Gahl, Susanne – Cognition, 2004
Syntactic knowledge is widely held to be partially innate, rather than learned. In a classic example, it is sometimes argued that children know the proper use of anaphoric "one," although that knowledge could not have been learned from experience. Lidz et al. [Lidz, J., Waxman, S., & Freedman, J. (2003). What infants know about syntax but couldn't…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Syntax, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development
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