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Children’s Learning of a Semantics-Free Artificial Grammar with Center Embedding
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In: Biolinguistics, Vol 14 (2020) (2020)
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Children’s Learning of a Semantics-Free Artificial Grammar with Center Embedding
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In: Biolinguistics, Vol 14 (2020) (2020)
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Whether non-human animals have an ability to learn and process center embedding, a core property of human language syntax, is still debated. Artificial-grammar learning (AGL) has been used to compare humans and animals in the learning of center embedding. However, up until now, human participants have only included adults, and data on children, who are the key players of natural language acquisition, are lacking. We created a novel game-like experimental paradigm combining the go/no-go procedure often used in animal research with the stepwise learning methods found effective in human adults’ center-embedding learning. Here we report that some children succeeded in learning a semantics-free artificial grammar with center embedding (A2B2 grammar) in the auditory modality. Although their success rate was lower than adults’, the successful children looked as efficient learners as adults. Where children struggled, their memory capacity seemed to have limited their AGL performance.
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artificial grammar; biolinguistics; center embedding; children; go/no-go; Language and Literature; P; P1-1091; Philology. Linguistics
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/494c98a4236b4dd08726b05e30abbc7e
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The Non-Hierarchical Nature of the Chomsky Hierarchy-Driven Artificial-Grammar Learning
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In: Biolinguistics, Vol 8, Iss 0, Pp 163-180 (2014) (2014)
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In: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/06/91/Front_Evol_Neurosci_2012_Apr_13_4_5.tar.gz (2012)
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Convergent Differential Regulation of Parvalbumin in the Brains of Vocal Learners
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In: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/6d/fa/PLoS_One_2012_Jan_6_7(1)_e29457.tar.gz (2010)
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What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena?
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In: Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00452105 ; D. Bickerton and E. Szathmáry. Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp.207-236, 2009, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 3 (2009)
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Review Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong
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In: http://phonology.cogsci.udel.edu/%7Eheinz/classes/2012/4-667/materials/Berwick2011.pdf
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Syringeal Specialization of Frequency Control during Song Production in the Bengalese Finch (Lonchura striata domestica)
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In: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/be/00/PLoS_One_2012_Mar_27_7(3)_e34135.tar.gz
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The Non-Hierarchical Nature of the Chomsky Hierarchy-Driven Artificial-Grammar Learning
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In: http://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/viewFile/348/336/
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Semi-Automatic Classification of Birdsong Elements Using a Linear Support Vector Machine
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Complex Sequencing Rules of Birdsong Can be Explained by Simple Hidden Markov Processes
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