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Children’s grammars grow more abstract with age – Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language
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In: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~gideon/borbodzui08cogsci-def.pdf (2008)
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Children’s grammars grow more abstract with age - evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language
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In: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/cogsci08.pdf (2008)
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Acoustic and perceptual similarities between English and Korean sibilants: implications for second language acquisition
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In: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~vanderso/Cheon%26Anderson.pdf (2008)
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Prosodic variation in L2: a case of Germans speaking
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In: http://isca-speech.org/archive_open/archive_papers/exling2008/exl8_021.pdf (2008)
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The Effect of Bilingualism on Cognition: Evidence from Early and Late Bilinguals
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In: http://sapience.dec.ens.fr/cogmaster/www/doc/MEMOIRES/2008_FISZER.pdf (2008)
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A model-based approach to second-language learning of grammatical constructions
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In: http://server-1.optim.cs.cmu.edu/people/Articles/2008 Frishkoff et al.pdf (2008)
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Language as shaped by the brain
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In: http://cnl.psych.cornell.edu/pubs/2008-cc-BBS.pdf (2008)
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Abstract: It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language-specific biological endowment, which encodes universal, but communicatively arbitrary, principles of language structure (a Universal Grammar or UG). How might such a UG have evolved? We argue that UG could not have arisen either by biological adaptation or non-adaptationist genetic processes, resulting in a logical problem of language evolution. Specifically, as the processes of language change are much more rapid than processes of genetic change, language constitutes a “moving target ” both over time and across different human populations, and, hence, cannot provide a stable environment to which language genes could have adapted. We conclude that a biologically determined UG is not evolutionarily viable. Instead, the original motivation for UG – the mesh between learners and languages – arises because language has been shaped to fit the human brain, rather than vice versa. Following Darwin, we view language itself as a complex and interdependent “organism, ” which evolves under selectional pressures from human learning and processing mechanisms. That is, languages themselves are shaped by severe selectional pressure from each generation of language users and learners. This suggests that apparently arbitrary aspects of linguistic structure may result from general learning and processing biases deriving from the structure of thought processes, perceptuo-motor factors, cognitive limitations, and pragmatics.
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biological adaptation; cultural evolution; grammaticalization; language acquisition; language evolution; linguistic change; natural selection; Universal Grammar
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URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.379.3136 http://cnl.psych.cornell.edu/pubs/2008-cc-BBS.pdf
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Principles of generalization for learning sequential structure in language
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In: http://langcog.stanford.edu/papers/frank-cogsci08-generalization.pdf (2008)
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PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE
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In: http://www.ieeta.pt/~lsl/pubs/2008-ConnectionScience-p277-297.pdf (2008)
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Prior knowledge bootstraps cross-situational learning
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In: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2008/pdfs/p1930.pdf (2008)
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The Politeness Effect in an Intelligent Foreign Language Tutoring System
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In: http://people.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/courses/slate/pdf/WangJohnsonITS2008.pdf (2008)
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Computational models in the debate over language learnability
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In: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/34/84/93/PDF/kaplan-oudeyer-bergen.pdf (2008)
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Fine-grained sensitivity . . .
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In: http://psych.nyu.edu/vouloumanos/VouloumanosCognition2008.pdf (2008)
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Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements
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In: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/research/learningphonetics.pdf (2007)
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Watching the brain during meaning acquisition
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In: http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2006/10/20/cercor.bhl094.full.pdf (2007)
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Differential effects of stimulus variability and learners’ pre-existing pitch perception ability in lexical tone learning by native English speakers
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In: http://www.icphs2007.de/conference/Papers/1558/1558.pdf (2007)
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Differential effects of stimulus variability and learners’ pre-existing pitch perception ability in lexical tone learning by native English speakers
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In: http://cns.northwestern.edu/pubs/pdfs/ICPhS_Jiyeon.pdf (2007)
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K.: Unsupervised models for morpheme segmentation and morphology learning
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In: http://users.ics.aalto.fi/krista/papers/creutz07acmtslp.pdf (2007)
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Watching the brain during meaning acquisition
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In: http://brainvitge.org/papers/mestres_cc_2007.pdf (2007)
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A statistical model for nearsynonym choice
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In: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/publications/ns_tslp.pdf (2007)
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