Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach

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• dc.contributor.author Fibla, Laia
• dc.contributor.author Sebastián Gallés, Núria
• dc.contributor.author Cristia, Alejandrina
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-06-16T06:04:59Z
• dc.date.available 2022-06-16T06:04:59Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 3 de novembre de 2021
• dc.description.abstract Since there are no systematic pauses delimiting words in speech, the problem of word segmentation is formidable even for monolingual infants. We use computational modeling to assess whether word segmentation is substantially harder in a bilingual than a monolingual setting. Seven algorithms representing different cognitive approaches to segmentation are applied to transcriptions of naturalistic input to young children, carefully processed to generate perfectly matched monolingual and bilingual corpora. We vary the overlap in phonology and lexicon experienced by modeling exposure to languages that are more similar (Catalan and Spanish) or more different (English and Spanish). We find that the greatest variation in performance is due to different segmentation algorithms and the second greatest to language, with bilingualism having effects that are smaller than both algorithm and language effects. Implications of these computational results for experimental and modeling approaches to language acquisition are discussed.
• dc.description.sponsorship AC acknowledges the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-17-CE28-0007 LangAge, ANR-16-DATA-0004 ACLEW, ANR-14-CE30-0003 MechELex, ANR-17-EURE-0017); and the J. S. McDonnell Foundation Understanding Human Cognition Scholar Award. NSG acknowledges the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013): ERG grant agreement number 323961 (UNDER CONTROL) and the Catalan Government (SGR 2017–268).
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• dc.identifier.citation Fibla L, Sebastian-Galles N, Cristia A. Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach. J Child Lang. 2021. 28 p. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000921000568
• dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000568
• dc.identifier.issn 0305-0009
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53503
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Child Language. 2021. 28 p.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ECFP7/323961
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword word segmentation
• dc.subject.keyword infancy
• dc.subject.keyword computational modeling
• dc.title Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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