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Developmental Constraints on Learning Artificial Grammars with Fixed, Flexible and Free Word Order
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Human learning, although highly flexible and efficient, is constrained in ways that facilitate or impede the acquisition of certain systems of information.
Iga Nowak +3 more
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Neurobiology of Language, 2021 Speech perception is dynamic and shows changes across development. In parallel, functional differences in brain development over time have been well documented and these differences may interact with changes in speech perception during infancy and ...
Orsolya B. Kolozsvári +6 more
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Acquiring a new second language contrast: an analysis of the English laryngeal system of native speakers of Dutch [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines the acquisition of the English laryngeal system by native speakers of (Belgian) Dutch. Both languages have a two-way laryngeal system, but while Dutch contrasts prevoiced with short-lag stops, English has a contrast between short-lag ...
Simon, Ellen
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Complexity in Language Acquisition [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2013 AbstractLearning theory has frequently been applied to language acquisition, but discussion has largely focused on information theoretic problems—in particular on the absence of direct negative evidence. Such arguments typically neglect the probabilistic nature of cognition and learning in general.
Clark, Alexander, Lappin, Shalom
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Spoken word recognition involves a perceptual tradeoff between the reliance on the incoming acoustic signal and knowledge about likely sound categories and their co-occurrences as words.
Seth Wiener, Chao-Yang Lee
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Learner internal psychological factors [PDF]
, 2012 Book synopsis: What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition?
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy [PDF]
, 2005 This paper presents results from experimental studies on early language acquisition in infants and attempts to interpret the experimental results within the framework of the Ecological Theory of Language Acquisition (ETLA) recently proposed by (Lacerda ...
Gustavsson, Lisa +4 more
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The Genetics of Language Acquisition
, 2019 This chapter focuses on the understanding of the role of genetics in language and explores how genetics contribute to language, and shows how new genetic techniques can offer inroads into the molecular basis of language acquisition. It discusses some of the key findings of gene x environment studies and provides a snapshot of the understanding in the ...
Mountford, Hayley S., Newbury, Dianne F.
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Response through the Intentional Arc: Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus and Second Language Acquisition [PDF]
, 2019 Language, when considered as part of the lived experience of human beings, fails to be reduced to mere representation. In line with non-representationalist understandings of the mind and knowledge-how centered understandings of knowledge, purposiveness ...
Burnett, Mia
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Ampersand, 2023 L1-Spanish-Catalan speakers often face difficulties when learning the English vowel system. PAM/PAM-L2 posits that native language experience shapes perception of L2 sounds, so discrimination of L2 contrasts can be predicted from L2-to-L1 categorization.
Lucrecia Rallo Fabra, Michael D. Tyler
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