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Learn locally, act globally: Learning language from variation set cues |
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| Authors: | Luca Onnis Heidi R. Waterfall Shimon Edelman |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States b Center for Second Language Research, University of Hawaii, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States c Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, United States d Department of Psychology, 5848 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, United States |
| Abstract: | Variation set structure - partial overlap of successive utterances in child-directed speech - has been shown to correlate with progress in children’s acquisition of syntax. We demonstrate the benefits of variation set structure directly: in miniature artificial languages, arranging a certain proportion of utterances in a training corpus in variation sets facilitated word and phrase constituent learning in adults. Our findings have implications for understanding the mechanisms of L1 acquisition by children, and for the development of more efficient algorithms for automatic language acquisition, as well as better methods for L2 instruction. |
| Keywords: | Variation sets Artificial language learning L1 L2 Language acquisition Artificial grammar learning Corpus analyses Alignment Short-term memory |
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