Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels?

Carmen Saldana; Kenneth Smith; Simon Kirby; Jennifer Culbertson

Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels?

Carmen Saldana, Kenneth Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract / Description of output

Human languages contain very little unconditioned variation. In contexts where language learners are exposed to input that contains inconsistencies, they tend to regularise it, either by eliminating competing variants, or conditioning variant use on the context. In the present study we compare regularisation behaviour across linguistic levels, looking at how adult learners respond to variability in morphology and word order. Our results suggest similar strengths in regularisation between linguistic levels given input languages whose complexity is comparable.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Editors	G Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, E. J. Davelaar
Place of Publication	Austin, TX
Publisher	Cognitive Science Society
Pages	1023-1028
ISBN (Print)	9780991196760
Publication status	Published - 29 Jul 2017
Event	CogSci 2017: 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Hilton London Metropole, 225 Edgware Rd, London, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jul 2017 → 29 Jul 2017 http://web.archive.org/web/20180926102901/http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci2017/

Conference

Conference	CogSci 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	26/07/17 → 29/07/17
Internet address	http://web.archive.org/web/20180926102901/http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci2017/

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Saldana, C., Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2017). Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1023-1028). Cognitive Science Society. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2017/papers/0200/index.html

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Saldana, C, Smith, K , Kirby, S & Culbertson, J 2017, Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? in G Gunzelmann, A Howes, T Tenbrink & EJ Davelaar (eds), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, pp. 1023-1028, CogSci 2017, London, United Kingdom, 26/07/17. <https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2017/papers/0200/index.html>

Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? / Saldana, Carmen; Smith, Kenneth ; Kirby, Simon et al.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ed. / G Gunzelmann; A. Howes; T. Tenbrink; E. J. Davelaar. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2017. p. 1023-1028.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution