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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"artificial language"”.
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Artificial Language Evolution on a Dynamical Interaction Network
… network on the distributed learning of a common language. We derive a new algorithm for generating realistic complex networks, called Noisy Preferential Attachment (NPA). This is a modification of preferential attachment that unifies it with the quasispecies model of molecular evolution. The …
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The acquisition of a miniature artificial language under various conditions of feedback
The merits of special purpose computer languages for process control are discussed; it is proposed that the FORTRAN language is an adequate and generally available vehicle for the programming of on-line real-time experiments in Psychology, when used with the techniques which are described. l. A …
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The acquisition of a miniature artificial language under various conditions of feedback
The merits of special purpose computer languages for process control are discussed; it is proposed that the FORTRAN language is an adequate and generally available vehicle for the programming of on-line real-time experiments in Psychology, when used with the techniques which are described. l. A …
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The acquisition of a miniature artificial language under various conditions of feedback
The merits of special purpose computer languages for process control are discussed; it is proposed that the FORTRAN language is an adequate and generally available vehicle for the programming of on-line real-time experiments in Psychology, when used with the techniques which are described. l. A …
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Acquisition of syntax in a minature artificial language : effects of input and instruction
… the acquisition of syntax in adult learners. An artificial miniature language was used to model real second language to control precisely the type of input, conditions of exposure and instruction accompanying that input. Performance of learners under four input conditions was compared and …
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The relationship between foreign language ability and achievement in other school subjects
… between the ability to learn a foreign language and abilities in other school subjects at the high school level. The sample included 134 tenth grade students recruited through their English classes. Foreign language ability was measured by an Artificial Language test. Students completed …
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Intact Statistical Word Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders
… Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have impairments in language acquisition, but the underlying mechanism of these deficits is poorly understood. Implicit learning appears potentially relevant to language development, particularly in speech segmentation, which relies on sensitivity to the transitional …
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Analytic bias in coocurrence restrictions
… along with others, are tested in a series of artificial language learning experiments. A modification of the existing Hayes and Wilson (2008) phonotactic learner is presented (HWgain). This modified model is more robust in inducing gradient constraints, induces more general constraints and …
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A consideration of two attacks upon the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction
… can be used to explain analytically in natural languages. The two attacks are, in effect, attacks upon the conception of the analytic as being definitely different from the synthetic. Quine's attack is directed primarily at three of Carnap's basic concepts -- state-description, explication, and …
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Experimental analysis of database query languages
… these systems have made human factors in query languages an area of major importance. Whereas early systems emphasized the power and efficiency of the retrieval mechanism, it is now generally acknowledged that the query language itself should be easy to learn and use, resistant to user errors, …
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Development of Semantic Reference for Location Symbols by Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>) Using a Two-Way Communication Keyboard
… complex semantic and syntactic commands in an artificial language system (Herman, Richards, & Wolz, 1984). Researchers working with primates have used American Sign Language, a computer keyboard system with discrete lexigrams, and a portable lexigram keyboard (Gardner & Gardner, 1969; Rumbaugh, …
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Experiencing language in the order that children do: Training on age-ordered child-directed speech facilitates semantic category learning in a recurrent neural network
… input in order that children actually experience language provides any learning advantage relative to training in the reverse order Indeed, I found that semantic categorization benefits from training on input which was ordered by the age of the target child compared to input which was ordered in …
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Constraints on phonological statistical learning in adults
… can compute a given statistical pattern from an artificial language (e.g., classic transitional probability studies). Even when studies include several statistical cues, these cues often coincide (e.g., exploring how prosody impacts transitional probability learning). However, outside of …
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Learning, Consolidating, and Generalising Novel Morphology
… three experiments, adult participants learned an artificial language in which stems (e.g. gleet, shiln) combined with plural affixes (e.g. –aff, -opp; gleetaff, shilnopp) to refer to the occupation of multiple male and female characters. Mimicking properties of morphological systems in natural …
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The role of cognitive factors on the development and evolution of the vocabulary
… is structured. Recent approaches to studying language have been heavily influenced by the principle that languages are shaped to suit the general learning and processing biases of the learner (Christiansen & Chater, 2008). This view has gained considerable support from theoretical and …
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Characterizing Language Representations in the Human Mind and Brain
Language allows for the mapping of speech signals or written characters to meaning every time we engage in conversation or read. How can biological tissue, our brains, support this mapping process? This thesis characterizes the neural representations that enable humans to infer the meaning of a …
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Linguistic relativity: Loci and conditions of emergence
… the randomized-controlled training paradigm: Can language learning lead to linguistic relativity effects – the effect of the language(s) we speak on our cognition of non-verbal stimuli even without verbalization or preparation for verbalization using the relevant linguistic feature(s)? If yes, …
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On natural and probabilisic effects during acquisition of morphophonemic alternations
… they are easy to learn, even in second language acquisition when adults have to learn certain processes that do not occur in their native language. There is also evidence that unnatural – arbitrary – rules can be learned. Current work on the acquisition of morphophonemic alternations …
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Child-adult differences in implicit and explicit second language learning
… a fundamental difference between adult and child language learning (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Johnson & Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Paradis, 2004). This difference is often framed as a change from implicit language learning in childhood to explicit language learning in adulthood, which is presumably …