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Pons, Ferran; Biesanz, Jeremy C.; Kajikawa, Sachiyo; Fais, Laurel; Narayan, Chandan R.; Amano, Shigeaki; Werker, Janet F. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
Using an artificial language learning manipulation, Maye, Werker, and Gerken (2002) demonstrated that infants' speech sound categories change as a function of the distributional properties of the input. In a recent study, Werker et al. (2007) showed that Infant-directed Speech (IDS) input contains reliable acoustic cues that support distributional…
Descriptors: Evidence, Cues, Phonetics, Vowels
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Matessa, Michael; Anderson, John R. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
ACT-R is a theory of cognition that is capable of learning the relative usefulness of alternative rules. A model using this implicit procedural learning mechanism is described that explains results from a concept formation task created by McDonald and MacWhinney (1991), a role assignment created by Blackwell (1995), and a new role assignment…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Case (Grammar), Cognitive Processes, College Students