Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions

Publication date: December 2017 Source:Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 97 Author(s): Patricia A. Reeder, Elissa L. Newport, Richard N. Aslin There has been significant recent interest in clarifying how learners use distributional information during language acquisition. Many researchers have suggested that distributional learning mechanisms play a major role during grammatical category acquisition, since linguistic form-classes (like noun and verb) and subclasses (like masculine and feminine grammatical gender) are primarily defined by the ways lexical items are distributed in syntactic contexts. Though recent experimental work has affirmed the importance of distributional information for category acquisition, there has been little evidence that learners can acquire linguistic subc...

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