The map trap: Why and how word learning research should move beyond mapping

EH Wojcik, M Zettersten… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A pervasive goal in the study of how children learn word meanings is to explain how young
children solve the mapping problem. The mapping problem asks how language learners …

A critical review of research relating to the learning, use and effects of additional and multiple languages in later life

SE Pfenninger, D Singleton - Language Teaching, 2019 - cambridge.org
While there is a growing body of research on second language acquisition (SLA) in children,
adolescents, young and more mature adults, much remains to be explored about how adults …

A social feedback loop for speech development and its reduction in autism

AS Warlaumont, JA Richards… - Psychological …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
We analyzed the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong,
automatically labeled audio recordings (13,836 hr total) of children (8-to 48-month-olds) with …

Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

B Ambridge - First Language, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

The myth of cognitive decline: Non‐linear dynamics of lifelong learning

M Ramscar, P Hendrix, C Shaoul… - Topics in cognitive …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As adults age, their performance on many psychometric tests changes systematically, a
finding that is widely taken to reveal that cognitive information‐processing capacities decline …

Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of" mouses" in adult speech

M Ramscar, M Dye, SM McCauley - Language, 2013 - JSTOR
As children learn their mother tongues, they make systematic errors. For example, English-
speaking children regularly say mouses rather than mice. Because children's errors are not …

Phonetic effects of morphology and context: Modeling the duration of word-final S in English with naïve discriminative learning

F Tomaschek, I Plag, M Ernestus, RH Baayen - Journal of Linguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Recent research on the acoustic realization of affixes has revealed differences between
phonologically homophonous affixes, eg the different kinds of final [s] and [z] in English …

[图书][B] Meaning in the brain

G Baggio - 2018 - books.google.com
An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

[HTML][HTML] Of mice and men: Speech sound acquisition as discriminative learning from prediction error, not just statistical tracking

JS Nixon - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite burgeoning evidence that listeners are highly sensitive to statistical distributions of
speech cues, the mechanism underlying learning may not be purely statistical tracking …

Comprehension without segmentation: A proof of concept with naive discriminative learning

RH Baayen, C Shaoul, J Willits… - Language, cognition and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Current theories of auditory comprehension assume that the segmentation of speech into
word forms is an essential prerequisite to understanding. We present a computational model …