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Morten H Christiansen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • individual differences in language acquisition and processing
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2018
    Co-Authors: Evan Kidd, Seamus Donnelly, Morten H Christiansen
    Abstract:

    Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic theory has downplayed the possibility of meaningful differences in language across individuals. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that there is significant variation among speakers at any age as well as across the lifespan. Here, we review recent research in Psycholinguistics, and argue that a focus on individual differences (IDs) provides a crucial source of evidence that bears strongly upon core issues in theories of the acquisition and processing of language; specifically, the role of experience in language acquisition, processing, and attainment, and the architecture of the language system.

  • connectionist Psycholinguistics capturing the empirical data
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2001
    Co-Authors: Morten H Christiansen, Nick Chater
    Abstract:

    Connectionist Psycholinguistics is an emerging approach to modeling empirical data on human language processing using connectionist computational architectures. For almost 20 years, connectionist models have increasingly been used to model empirical data across many areas of language processing. We critically review four key areas: speech processing, sentence processing, language production, and reading aloud, and evaluate progress against three criteria: data contact, task veridicality, and input representativeness. Recent connectionist modeling efforts have made considerable headway toward meeting these criteria, although it is by no means clear whether connectionist (or symbolic) Psycholinguistics will eventually provide an integrated model of full-scale human language processing.

Stefan Th Gries - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the most under used statistical method in corpus linguistics multi level and mixed effects models
    Corpora, 2015
    Co-Authors: Stefan Th Gries
    Abstract:

    Much statistical analysis of psycholinguistic data is now being done with so-called mixed-effects regression models. This development was spearheaded by a few highly influential introductory articles that (i) showed how these regression models are superior to what was the previous gold standard and, perhaps even more importantly, (ii) showed how these models are used practically. Corpus linguistics can benefit from mixed-effects/multi-level models for the same reason that Psycholinguistics can – because, for example, speaker-specific and lexically specific idiosyncrasies can be accounted for elegantly; but, in fact, corpus linguistics needs them even more because (i) corpus-linguistic data are observational and, thus, usually unbalanced and messy/noisy, and (ii) most widely used corpora come with a hierarchical structure that corpus linguists routinely fail to consider. Unlike nearly all overviews of mixed-effects/multi-level modelling, this paper is specifically written for corpus linguists to get more o...

  • corpus linguistics theoretical linguistics and cognitive Psycholinguistics towards more and more fruitful exchanges
    2012
    Co-Authors: Stefan Th Gries
    Abstract:

    This article discusses my version of corpus linguistics, its relation to what I think are neighboring fields (mainly cognitive and Psycholinguistics), how corpus linguistics can and should enter into more mutually beneficial relations with these fields, and the from my perspective most promising contemporary cognitive and psycholinguistic approach that provides a natural point of connection to corpus-based approaches. "Resistance is futile!" (The Borg)

Evan Kidd - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • individual differences in language acquisition and processing
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2018
    Co-Authors: Evan Kidd, Seamus Donnelly, Morten H Christiansen
    Abstract:

    Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic theory has downplayed the possibility of meaningful differences in language across individuals. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that there is significant variation among speakers at any age as well as across the lifespan. Here, we review recent research in Psycholinguistics, and argue that a focus on individual differences (IDs) provides a crucial source of evidence that bears strongly upon core issues in theories of the acquisition and processing of language; specifically, the role of experience in language acquisition, processing, and attainment, and the architecture of the language system.

Beverly Wulfeck - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Voeten C.c. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The adoption of sound change : synchronic and diachronic processing of regional variation in Dutch
    'Amsterdam University Press', 2020
    Co-Authors: Voeten C.c.
    Abstract:

    This dissertation investigates how sound change is adopted by speakers and listeners, based on a currently-ongoing cluster of changes in Dutch termed the ‘Polder shift’. The main aim of the dissertation is to form a bridge between five key areas of linguistics: historical phonology, sociophonetics, Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and quantitative linguistics. A unified account of these different angles to the study of sound change is not trivial. This dissertation uses psycholinguistic experiments combined with detailed quantitative analysis to study the contributions of the different components to the adoption of sound change in the medium and long term. The population studied in this dissertation is sociolinguistic migrants: in this case, Flemish speakers of Dutch who have migrated to the Netherlands, and thereby migrated from a non-Polder-shift area to a Polder-shift area. The methods adopted in this dissertation include a corpus study of regional variation, longitudinal psycholinguistic experiments over nine months’ time, cross-sectional psycholinguistic experiments spanning multiple decades of apparent time, and two neurolinguistic studies using EEG. Results show that the sociolinguistic migrants rapidly acquire allophonic variation at the phonological level (albeit not necessarily the associated sociolinguistic knowledge), but that it takes a long time (more than nine months, up to multiple decades) for this to carry forward to their behavioral production and perception, and moreover is subject to significant individual differences. The contributions by this dissertation show how the fundamentally sociolinguistic phenomenon of sound change can be studied empirically using psycho- and neurolinguistics, and profit from recent innovations in statistics

  • The adoption of sound change : synchronic and diachronic processing of regional variation in Dutch
    'The Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles', 2020
    Co-Authors: Voeten C.c.
    Abstract:

    This dissertation investigates how sound change is adopted by speakers and listeners, based on a currently-ongoing cluster of changes in Dutch termed the ‘Polder shift’. The main aim of the dissertation is to form a bridge between five key areas of linguistics: historical phonology, sociophonetics, Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and quantitative linguistics. A unified account of these different angles to the study of sound change is not trivial. This dissertation uses psycholinguistic experiments combined with detailed quantitative analysis to study the contributions of the different components to the adoption of sound change in the medium and long term. The population studied in this dissertation is sociolinguistic migrants: in this case, Flemish speakers of Dutch who have migrated to the Netherlands, and thereby migrated from a non-Polder-shift area to a Polder-shift area. The methods adopted in this dissertation include a corpus study of regional variation, longitudinal psycholinguistic experiments over nine months’ time, cross-sectional psycholinguistic experiments spanning multiple decades of apparent time, and two neurolinguistic studies using EEG. Results show that the sociolinguistic migrants rapidly acquire allophonic variation at the phonological level (albeit not necessarily the associated sociolinguistic knowledge), but that it takes a long time (more than nine months, up to multiple decades) for this to carry forward to their behavioral production and perception, and moreover is subject to significant individual differences. The contributions by this dissertation show how the fundamentally sociolinguistic phenomenon of sound change can be studied empirically using psycho- and neurolinguistics, and profit from recent innovations in statistics.NWOTheoretical and Experimental Linguistic

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