Learning fast while avoiding spurious excitement and overcoming cue competition requires setting unachievable goals: Reasons for using the logistic activation …
V Kapatsinski - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Language learning often involves predicting categorical outcomes based on a set of cues.
Error in predicting a categorical outcome is the difference between zero or one and the …
Error in predicting a categorical outcome is the difference between zero or one and the …
A learning perspective on the emergence of abstractions: The curious case of phone (me) s
In this study, we propose an operationalization of the concept of emergence which plays a
crucial role in usage-based theories of language. The abstractions linguists operate with are …
crucial role in usage-based theories of language. The abstractions linguists operate with are …
Syntagmatic paradigms: Learning correspondence from contiguity
A Smolek, V Kapatsinski - Morphology, 2023 - Springer
Morphological paradigms are linked together by relations of paradigmatic predictability
(implicative relations): when a speaker knows one form of a word, one can predict other …
(implicative relations): when a speaker knows one form of a word, one can predict other …
Defragmenting learning
V Kapatsinski - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the 1990s, language acquisition researchers and theoretical linguists developed an
interest in learning mechanisms, and learning theorists rediscovered the verbal learning …
interest in learning mechanisms, and learning theorists rediscovered the verbal learning …
Morphology in a parallel, distributed, interactive architecture of language production
V Kapatsinski - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - frontiersin.org
How do speakers produce novel words? This programmatic paper synthesizes research in
linguistics and neuroscience to argue for a parallel distributed architecture of the language …
linguistics and neuroscience to argue for a parallel distributed architecture of the language …
[PDF][PDF] A learning perspective on the emergence of abstractions
In this study, we propose an operationalization of the concept of emergence which plays a
crucial role in usage-based theories of language. The abstractions linguists operate with are …
crucial role in usage-based theories of language. The abstractions linguists operate with are …