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Getting It Right by Getting It Wrong: When Learners Change Languages
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Hudson Kam, Carla L.; Newport, Elissa L. – Cognitive Psychology, 2009
When natural language input contains grammatical forms that are used probabilistically and inconsistently, learners will sometimes reproduce the inconsistencies; but sometimes they will instead regularize the use of these forms, introducing consistency in the language that was not present in the input. In this paper we ask what produces such…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Artificial Languages, Adult Learning, Linguistic Input