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Publication Date: 2024
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Error-Correction Mechanisms in Language Learning: Modeling Individuals
Language Learning, v74 n1 p41-77 2024
Since its first adoption as a computational model for language learning, evidence has accumulated that Rescorla-Wagner error-correction learning (Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) captures several aspects of language processing. Whereas previous studies have provided general support for the Rescorla-Wagner rule by using it to explain the behavior of participants across a range of tasks, we focus on testing predictions generated by the model in a controlled natural language learning task and model the data at the level of the individual learner. By adjusting the parameters of the model to fit the trial-by-trial behavioral choices of participants, rather than fitting a one-for-all model using a single set of default parameters, we show that the model accurately captures participants' choices, time latencies, and levels of response agreement. We also show that gender and working memory capacity affect the extent to which the Rescorla-Wagner model captures language learning.
Descriptors: Error Correction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Gender Differences, Short Term Memory, Computational Linguistics, Task Analysis, Behavior Patterns, Natural Language Processing, Goodness of Fit, Decision Making, Linguistic Theory
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