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Yiyun Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While most animals have communication systems, few exhibit such high-level of complexity as human languages. One central question of linguistics and cognitive science is to explore what human cognitive underpinnings and learning mechanisms are necessary to master such a complex system. One influential approach is Chomskyan generativism which…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Bias
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Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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Li, Ping; Xu, Qihui – Language Learning, 2023
The last two decades have seen a significant amount of interest in bilingual language learning and processing. A number of computational models have also been developed to account for bilingualism, with varying degrees of success. In this article, we first briefly introduce the significance of computational approaches to bilingual language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vong, Wai Keen; Lake, Brenden M. – Cognitive Science, 2022
In order to learn the mappings from words to referents, children must integrate co-occurrence information across individually ambiguous pairs of scenes and utterances, a challenge known as cross-situational word learning. In machine learning, recent multimodal neural networks have been shown to learn meaningful visual-linguistic mappings from…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Cognitive Mapping, Problem Solving, Visual Aids
Shuxiao Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological learning is a biased process: certain phonological patterns are easily accessed and learned by the speakers, while others show acquisition difficulties. These differences…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Speakers, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Nicole Irene Mirea – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Phonotactic patterns are generalizations that govern the order of consonants and vowels, within words and syllables. Certain second-order phonotactic patterns--those that relate multiple sounds within a syllable, such as "if the vowel is [near-close near-front unrounded vowel], then [s] can only appear at the end of the…
Descriptors: Generalization, Prior Learning, Speech Communication, Phonemes
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Radulescu, Silvia; Wijnen, Frank; Avrutin, Sergey – Language Learning and Development, 2020
From limited evidence, children track the regularities of their language impressively fast and they infer generalized rules that apply to novel instances. This study investigated what drives the inductive leap from memorizing specific items and statistical regularities to extracting abstract rules. We propose an innovative entropy model that…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Learning Processes
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Knabe, Melina L.; Vlach, Haley A. – First Language, 2020
Ambridge argues that there is widespread agreement among child language researchers that learners store linguistic abstractions. In this commentary the authors first argue that this assumption is incorrect; anti-representationalist/exemplar views are pervasive in theories of child language. Next, the authors outline what has been learned from this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition, Models
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McBride, Catherine; Pan, Dora Jue; Mohseni, Fateme – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
We review cognitive-linguistic approaches to conveying meaning, sound, and orthographic information across scripts in order to highlight the impact of variability in written and spoken language on learning to read and to write words. With examples of word recognition and word writing from different scripts, including Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Psychomotor Skills, Spelling, Written Language
Lifeng Jin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Syntactic structures are unobserved theoretical constructs which are useful in explaining a wide range of linguistic and psychological phenomena. Language acquisition studies how such latent structures are acquired by human learners through many hypothesized learning mechanisms and apparatuses, which can be genetically endowed or of general…
Descriptors: Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Learning Processes, Models
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Le Pichon, Emmanuelle; de Jonge, Maretha – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
In this paper, we present an examination of the literature on prolonged periods of silence in children from the perspective of two different scientific fields. The aim is to call attention to the inherent complexity of the factors that may be involved in the etiology of mutistic behavior during child development. Medical and linguistic literature…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Processing
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Green, Kieran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Language is nature in action and something humans do. This literature review presents evidence from the literature that suggests that learning a foreign language in a classroom situation does not require high levels of student motivation. It is instead suggested that high levels of motivation are needed to make progress when a teacher is using…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews
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Saffran, Jenny – Language Learning, 2014
Over the past several decades, researchers have discovered a great deal of information about the processes underlying language acquisition. From as early as they can be studied, infants are sensitive to the nuances of native-language sound structure. Similarly, infants are attuned to the visual and conceptual structure of their environments…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Mapping, Phonology
Leben, Derek – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Lexical semantics is the field of cognitive science which attempts to explain how speakers learn to use and accept sentences like "She filled the glass with water" but avoid and reject sentences like "She poured the glass with water," often with poor or impoverished evidence. In order to explain why some verbs alternate in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Language Patterns, Epistemology
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Mestres-Missé, Anna; Münte, Thomas F.; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni – Second Language Research, 2014
In three experiments, we examine the effects of semantic context and word concreteness on the mapping of existing meanings to new words. We developed a new-word-learning paradigm in which participants were required to discover the meaning of a new-word form from a specific verbal context. The stimulus materials were manipulated according to word…
Descriptors: Semantics, Context Effect, Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes
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