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- Title
Artificial Language Learning in Adults and Children Folia et al. Artificial Language Learning in Adults and Children.
- Authors
Folia, Vasiliki; Uddén, Julia; de Vries, Meinou; Forkstam, Christian; Petersson, Karl Magnus
- Abstract
This article briefly reviews some recent work on artificial language learning in children and adults. The final part of the article is devoted to a theoretical formulation of the language learning problem from a mechanistic neurobiological viewpoint and we show that it is logically possible to combine the notion of innate language constraints with, for example, the notion of domain general learning mechanisms. A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that the mechanisms involved in artificial language learning and in structured sequence processing are shared with those of natural language acquisition and natural language processing. Finally, by theoretically analyzing a formal learning model, we highlight Fodor's insight that it is logically possible to combine innate, domain-specific constraints with domain-general learning mechanisms.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL languages; LANGUAGE &; languages; LEARNING; LANGUAGE acquisition; NEUROBIOLOGY
- Publication
Language Learning, 2010, Vol 60, p188
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00606.x