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COGNITION
Volume 109, Issue 3, Pages 423-430Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.004
Keywords
Variation sets; Artificial language learning; L1; L2; Language acquisition; Artificial grammar learning; Corpus analyses; Alignment Short-term memory
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- NICHD NIH HHS [P01 HD040605, R03 HD051671-02, 5R03HD051671-02, P01HD40605, R03 HD051671] Funding Source: Medline
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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. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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