30.474, Books: Simple Rule Learning is Not Simple: Geambașu

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Subject: 30.474, Books: Simple Rule Learning is Not Simple: Geambașu

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:14:12
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Simple Rule Learning is Not Simple: Geambașu

 


Title: Simple Rule Learning is Not Simple 
Subtitle: Studies on Infant and Adult Pattern Perception and Production 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/simple-rule-learning-is-not-simple-studies-on-infant-and-adult-pattern-perception-and-production 


Author: Andreea Geambașu

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933103 Pages: 163 Price: Europe EURO 29.00


Abstract:

The ability to learn rules is at the heart of the ability to learn language.
This thesis is a collection of papers tackling rule learning from various
perspectives and domains – including visual, auditory, and speech domains – in
both infants and adults. Using both simple XYX-, XXY-, or XYY-type rules, and
more complex Lindenmayer grammars, we were able to gain insights into the rule
learning processes of young infants and of adults. While we were unsuccessful
in attempted replications and extensions of previous studies, it was precisely
these failures that helped to provide a more nuanced picture of rule learning:
even the simplest type of rule learning is far from straightforward. For
infants, we find evidence for a repetition bias in both the visual and speech
domain that is difficult to overcome, while for adults we show that the
learning environment – the task used, the instructions, types of testing
stimuli – are all highly influential in determining whether a simple rule can
be learned or not. Furthermore, by studying patterns found in babbling we were
able to hypothesize for the first time about the parallels between production
and perceptual abilities with respect to rule learning.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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