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Erdin Mujezinovic; Vsevolod Kapatsinski; Ruben van de Vijver – Cognitive Science, 2024
A word often expresses many different morphological functions. Which part of a word contributes to which part of the overall meaning is not always clear, which raises the question as to how such functions are learned. While linguistic studies tacitly assume the co-occurrence of cues and outcomes to suffice in learning these functions (Baer-Henney,…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Morphemes, Cues
Lev-Ari, Shiri; van Heugten, Marieke; Peperkamp, Sharon – Cognitive Science, 2017
Foreign-accented speech is generally harder to understand than native-accented speech. This difficulty is reduced for non-native listeners who share their first language with the non-native speaker. It is currently unclear, however, how non-native listeners deal with foreign-accented speech produced by speakers of a different language. We show…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
Atkinson, Mark; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon – Cognitive Science, 2018
Languages spoken in larger populations are relatively simple. A possible explanation for this is that languages with a greater number of speakers tend to also be those with higher proportions of non-native speakers, who may simplify language during learning. We assess this explanation for the negative correlation between population size and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Morphology (Languages)
Ettlinger, Marc; Morgan-Short, Kara; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Artificial language learning (ALL) experiments have become an important tool in exploring principles of language and language learning. A persistent question in all of this work, however, is whether ALL engages the linguistic system and whether ALL studies are ecologically valid assessments of natural language ability. In the present study, we…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Spanish
Lany, Jill; Gomez, Rebecca L.; Gerken, Lou Ann – Cognitive Science, 2007
Learners exposed to an artificial language recognize its abstract structural regularities when instantiated in a novel vocabulary (e.g., Gomez, Gerken, & Schvaneveldt, 2000; Tunney & Altmann, 2001). We asked whether such sensitivity accelerates subsequent learning, and enables acquisition of more complex structure. In Experiment 1, pre-exposure to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonology, Artificial Languages, Prior Learning
Modeling the Development of Children's Use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English Using MOSAIC
Freudenthal, Daniel; Pine, Julian M.; Gobet, Fernand – Cognitive Science, 2006
In this study we use a computational model of language learning called model of syntax acquisition in children (MOSAIC) to investigate the extent to which the optional infinitive (OI) phenomenon in Dutch and English can be explained in terms of a resource-limited distributional analysis of Dutch and English child-directed speech. The results show…
Descriptors: Children, Indo European Languages, English, Syntax
Phonotactics and Articulatory Coordination Interact in Phonology: Evidence from Nonnative Production
Davidson, Lisa – Cognitive Science, 2006
A core area of phonology is the study of phonotactics, or how sounds are linearly combined. Recent cross-linguistic analyses have shown that the phonology determines not only phonotactics but also the articulatory coordination or timing of adjacent sounds. In this article, I explore how the relation between coordination and phonotactics affects…
Descriptors: Phonology, Articulation (Speech), Phonemes, Contrastive Linguistics
Mitterer, Holger; Csepe, Valeria; Honbolygo, Ferenc; Blomert, Leo – Cognitive Science, 2006
In a series of 5 experiments, we investigated whether the processing of phonologically assimilated utterances is influenced by language learning. Previous experiments had shown that phonological assimilations, such as /lean#bacon/ [right arrow] [leam bacon], are compensated for in perception. In this article, we investigated whether compensation…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Processing, Listening Comprehension, Hungarian