Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence

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• dc.contributor.author Gervain, Juditca
• dc.contributor.author Sebastián Gallés, Núriaca
• dc.contributor.author Díaz Menéndez, Begoña, 1979-ca
• dc.contributor.author Laka, Itziarca
• dc.contributor.author Mazuka, Reikoca
• dc.contributor.author Yamane, Naotoca
• dc.contributor.author Nespor, Marinaca
• dc.contributor.author Mehler, Jacquesca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-15T18:28:34Z
• dc.date.available 2016-02-15T18:28:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2013
• dc.description.abstract One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or anchors into the syntactic structure of utterances due to their high frequency. Despite its potentially universal scope, this hypothesis has not yet been tested on typologically different languages and on populations of different ages. Here we report a corpus study and an artificial grammar learning experiment testing the anchoring hypothesis in Basque, Japanese, French, and Italian adults. We show that adults are sensitive to the distribution of functors in their native language and use them when learning new linguistic material. However, compared to infants' performance on a similar task, adults exhibit a slightly different behavior, matching the frequency distributions of their native language more closely than infants do. This finding bears on the issue of the continuity of language learning mechanisms.ca
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by grants from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Programme JC 21373), the Fyssen Foundation and the Emergence(s) program of the City of Paris to Judit Gervain, the ESF Eurocores OMLL grant and the Italian National Grants (COFIN) 2003-2007 to Marina Nespor, a James S. McDonnell Foundation grant to Jacques Mehler, the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 269502 (PASCAL), to Jacques Mehler, and the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PSI2012-34071 to Núria Sebastián-Gallés; FFI2012-31360 (and Basque Government IT665-13) to Itziar Laka, Consolider-Ingenio 2010-CDS-2007-00012 to Núria Sebastián-Gallés and Itziar Laka), Grants-In-Aid for Scientific Research by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports to Reiko Mazuka (Kakenhi No. 21610028), and the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement n° 328671 to Begoña Díaz. Núria Sebastián-Gallés received the prize “ICREA Acadèmia” for excellence in research, funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. We would like to thank Emmanuel Dupoux, Franck Ramus and other members of the Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique (EHESS-CNRS-ENS, Paris, France) for allowing us to use their facilities to test the French participants. We are grateful to Krista Byers-Heinlein, Laurel Fais, Mark Scott, Katie Yoshida, Whitney Weikum, and Janet Werker for their comments on earlier versions of the paper.
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• dc.identifier.citation Gervain J, Sebastián-Gallés N, Díaz B, Laka I, Mazuka R, Yamane N, Nespor M, Mehler J. Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence. Front. Psychol. 2013;689(4):1-12. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00689.
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00689
• dc.identifier.issn 1664-1078
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25825
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher Frontiers Mediaca
• dc.relation.ispartof Frontiers in Psychology. 2013;689(4):1-12
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/269502
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/328671
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/CDS-2007-00012
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2012-34071
• dc.rights © 2013 Gervain, Sebastian-Galles, Diaz, Laka, Mazuka, Yamane, Nespor and Mehler. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.ca
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ca
• dc.subject.keyword Language acquisition
• dc.subject.keyword Speech perception
• dc.subject.keyword Morphosyntax
• dc.subject.keyword Cross-linguistic analysis
• dc.subject.keyword Word frequency
• dc.subject.keyword Corpus analysis
• dc.subject.keyword Anchoring hypothesis
• dc.title Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidenceca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
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