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Blything, Ryan P.; Ambridge, Ben; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study adjudicates between two opposing accounts of morphological productivity, using English past-tense as its test case. The single-route model (e.g., Bybee & Moder, 1983) posits that both regular and irregular past-tense forms are generated by analogy across stored exemplars in associative memory. In contrast, the dual-route model…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Morphemes, Correlation
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Rodrigo, T.; Arall, M.; Chamizo, V. D. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2005
Rodrigo, Chamizo, McLaren, & Mackintosh (1997) demonstrated the blocking effect in a navigational task using a swimming pool: rats initially trained to use three landmarks (ABC) to find an invisible platform learned less about a fourth landmark (X) added later than did rats trained from the outset with these four landmarks (ABCX). The aim of the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Animals, Classical Conditioning, Recreational Facilities