Grammatical Generalisation in Statistical Learning: Is it Implicit and Invariant Across development?

TY - GEN

T1 - Grammatical Generalisation in Statistical Learning

T2 - 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019

AU - Hickey, Amanda J.

AU - Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E.

AU - Mirković, Jelena

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019.All rights reserved.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The learning and generalisation of grammatical regularities is fundamental to successful language acquisition and use. Research into statistical learning has started to consider how this process occurs through the implicit detection and assimilation of grammatical regularities. This study focuses on how adults and children generalise regularities and explores the role of explicit knowledge in this process. Across three experiments, adults and children learnt an artificial language containing two semantic categories denoted by a co-occurring determiner and suffix. Explicit knowledge of the regularities was associated with generalisation performance in adults but not children, even when adult word level knowledge was similar to children's. The implications of these results for developmental theories of grammatical generalisation are discussed.

AB - The learning and generalisation of grammatical regularities is fundamental to successful language acquisition and use. Research into statistical learning has started to consider how this process occurs through the implicit detection and assimilation of grammatical regularities. This study focuses on how adults and children generalise regularities and explores the role of explicit knowledge in this process. Across three experiments, adults and children learnt an artificial language containing two semantic categories denoted by a co-occurring determiner and suffix. Explicit knowledge of the regularities was associated with generalisation performance in adults but not children, even when adult word level knowledge was similar to children's. The implications of these results for developmental theories of grammatical generalisation are discussed.

KW - artificial language

KW - explicit knowledge

KW - generalisation

KW - grammatical categories

KW - learning

KW - statistical learning

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M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85139386781

T3 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019

SP - 1908

EP - 1914

BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

PB - The Cognitive Science Society

Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 27 July 2019

ER -