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Nicholas D. Duran; Amie Paige; Sidney K. D'Mello – Cognitive Science, 2024
Cocreating meaning in collaboration is challenging. Success is often determined by people's abilities to coordinate their language to converge upon shared mental representations. Here we explore one set of low-level linguistic behaviors, linguistic alignment, that both emerges from, and facilitates, outcomes of high-level convergence. Linguistic…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Semantics, Syntax, Problem Solving
Baggio, Giosuè – Cognitive Science, 2021
Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however, remains contentious. Here, I reassess the nature and scope of the principle of compositionality (Partee, 1995) from the perspective of psycholinguistics and cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Neurosciences, Phrase Structure
Wang, Wentao; Vong, Wai Keen; Kim, Najoung; Lake, Brenden M. – Cognitive Science, 2023
Neural network models have recently made striking progress in natural language processing, but they are typically trained on orders of magnitude more language input than children receive. What can these neural networks, which are primarily distributional learners, learn from a naturalistic subset of a single child's experience? We examine this…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Linguistic Input, Longitudinal Studies, Self Concept
Enfield, N. J. – Cognitive Science, 2023
A central concern of the cognitive science of language since its origins has been the concept of the linguistic system. Recent approaches to the system concept in language point to the exceedingly complex relations that hold between many kinds of interdependent systems, but it can be difficult to know how to proceed when "everything is…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Guidelines, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Research
Scontras, Gregory; Badecker, William; Fedorenko, Evelina – Cognitive Science, 2017
In our article, "Syntactic complexity effects in sentence production" [Scontras, Badecker, Shank, Lim, & Fedorenko, 2015 (EJ1057757)], we reported two elicited production experiments and argued that there is a cost associated with planning and uttering syntactically complex, object-extracted structures that contain a non-local…
Descriptors: Syntax, Sentences, Experiments, Planning
Newmeyer, Frederick J. – Cognitive Science, 2017
This article focuses on claims about the origin and evolution of language from the point of view of the formalist-functionalist debate in linguistics. In linguistics, an account of a grammatical phenomenon is considered "formal" if it accords center stage to the structural properties of that phenomenon, and "functional" if it…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistics, Language Usage, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Chang, Franklin; Baumann, Michael; Pappert, Sandra; Fitz, Hartmut – Cognitive Science, 2015
Lexicalized theories of syntax often assume that verb-structure regularities are mediated by lemmas, which abstract over variation in verb tense and aspect. German syntax seems to challenge this assumption, because verb position depends on tense and aspect. To examine how German speakers link these elements, a structural priming study was…
Descriptors: German, Verbs, Priming, Syntax
Kam, Xuan-Nga Cao; Stoyneshka, Iglika; Tornyova, Lidiya; Fodor, Janet D.; Sakas, William G. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Recent challenges to Chomsky's "poverty of the stimulus" thesis for language acquisition suggest that children's primary data may carry "indirect evidence" about linguistic constructions despite containing no instances of them. Indirect evidence is claimed to suffice for grammar acquisition, without need for innate knowledge. This article reports…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, English, Indo European Languages
Ambridge, Ben; Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2008
According to Crain and Nakayama (1987), when forming complex yes/no questions, children do not make errors such as "Is the boy who smoking is crazy?" because they have innate knowledge of "structure dependence" and so will not move the auxiliary from the relative clause. However, simple recurrent networks are also able to avoid…
Descriptors: Children, Language Processing, Language Patterns, Linguistic Input
Imai, Mutsumi; Mazuka, Reiko – Cognitive Science, 2007
Objects and substances bear fundamentally different ontologies. In this article, we examine the relations between language, the ontological distinction with respect to individuation, and the world. Specifically, in cross-linguistic developmental studies that follow Imai and Gentner (1997), we examine the question of whether language influences our…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Classification, Syntax, Nouns
Freudenthal, Daniel; Pine, Julian M.; Aguado-Orea, Javier; Gobet, Fernand – Cognitive Science, 2007
In this study, we apply MOSAIC (model of syntax acquisition in children) to the simulation of the developmental patterning of children's optional infinitive (OI) errors in 4 languages: English, Dutch, German, and Spanish. MOSAIC, which has already simulated this phenomenon in Dutch and English, now implements a learning mechanism that better…
Descriptors: German, Spanish, Indo European Languages, English
Farmer, Thomas A.; Cargill, Sarah A.; Hindy, Nicholas C.; Dale, Rick; Spivey, Michael J. – Cognitive Science, 2007
Although several theories of online syntactic processing assume the parallel activation of multiple syntactic representations, evidence supporting simultaneous activation has been inconclusive. Here, the continuous and non-ballistic properties of computer mouse movements are exploited, by recording their streaming x, y coordinates to procure…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Structure, Computers, Language Processing
Onnis, Luca; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Language acquisition may be one of the most difficult tasks that children face during development. They have to segment words from fluent speech, figure out the meanings of these words, and discover the syntactic constraints for joining them together into meaningful sentences. Over the past couple of decades, computational modeling has emerged as…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Phonology, Computational Linguistics
Frank, Robert – Cognitive Science, 2004
Theories of natural language syntax often characterize grammatical knowledge as a form of abstract computation. This paper argues that such a characterization is correct, and that fundamental properties of grammar can and should be understood in terms of restrictions on the complexity of possible grammatical computation, when defined in terms of…
Descriptors: Syntax, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Kako, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2005
Why are some words easier to learn than others? And what enables the eventual learning of the more difficult words? These questions were addressed for nouns using a paradigm in which adults were exposed to naturalistic maternal input that was manipulated to simulate access to several different information sources, both alone and in combination:…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Vocabulary Development, Nouns, Models
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