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Andrea Puglisi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Individual Biases, Cultural Evolution, and the Statistical Nature of Language Universals: The Case of Colour Naming Systems
2016Co-Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea PuglisiAbstract:Language Universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alterna-tive explanation states that linguistic Universals emerged independently in every language in response to shared cognitive or perceptual biases. A computational model has recently shown how this could be the case, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Universal properties of colour naming patterns, and producing results in quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Here we investigate the role of an individual perceptual bias in the framework of the model. We study how, and to what extent, the structure of the bias influ-ences the corresponding linguistic Universal patterns. We show that the cultural history of a group of speakers introduces population-specific constraints that act against the pressure for uniformity arising from the individual bias, and we clarify the interplay between these two forces
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Individual biases, cultural evolution, and the statistical nature of language Universals: the case of colour naming systems.
PloS one, 2015Co-Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea PuglisiAbstract:Language Universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alternative explanation states that linguistic Universals emerged independently in every language in response to shared cognitive or perceptual biases. A computational model has recently shown how this could be the case, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Universal properties of colour naming patterns, and producing results in quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Here we investigate the role of an individual perceptual bias in the framework of the model. We study how, and to what extent, the structure of the bias influences the corresponding linguistic Universal patterns. We show that the cultural history of a group of speakers introduces population-specific constraints that act against the pressure for uniformity arising from the individual bias, and we clarify the interplay between these two forces.
Andrea Baronchelli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Individual Biases, Cultural Evolution, and the Statistical Nature of Language Universals: The Case of Colour Naming Systems
2016Co-Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea PuglisiAbstract:Language Universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alterna-tive explanation states that linguistic Universals emerged independently in every language in response to shared cognitive or perceptual biases. A computational model has recently shown how this could be the case, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Universal properties of colour naming patterns, and producing results in quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Here we investigate the role of an individual perceptual bias in the framework of the model. We study how, and to what extent, the structure of the bias influ-ences the corresponding linguistic Universal patterns. We show that the cultural history of a group of speakers introduces population-specific constraints that act against the pressure for uniformity arising from the individual bias, and we clarify the interplay between these two forces
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Individual biases, cultural evolution, and the statistical nature of language Universals: the case of colour naming systems.
PloS one, 2015Co-Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea PuglisiAbstract:Language Universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alternative explanation states that linguistic Universals emerged independently in every language in response to shared cognitive or perceptual biases. A computational model has recently shown how this could be the case, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Universal properties of colour naming patterns, and producing results in quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Here we investigate the role of an individual perceptual bias in the framework of the model. We study how, and to what extent, the structure of the bias influences the corresponding linguistic Universal patterns. We show that the cultural history of a group of speakers introduces population-specific constraints that act against the pressure for uniformity arising from the individual bias, and we clarify the interplay between these two forces.
Vittorio Loreto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Individual Biases, Cultural Evolution, and the Statistical Nature of Language Universals: The Case of Colour Naming Systems
2016Co-Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea PuglisiAbstract:Language Universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alterna-tive explanation states that linguistic Universals emerged independently in every language in response to shared cognitive or perceptual biases. A computational model has recently shown how this could be the case, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Universal properties of colour naming patterns, and producing results in quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Here we investigate the role of an individual perceptual bias in the framework of the model. We study how, and to what extent, the structure of the bias influ-ences the corresponding linguistic Universal patterns. We show that the cultural history of a group of speakers introduces population-specific constraints that act against the pressure for uniformity arising from the individual bias, and we clarify the interplay between these two forces
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Individual biases, cultural evolution, and the statistical nature of language Universals: the case of colour naming systems.
PloS one, 2015Co-Authors: Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Andrea PuglisiAbstract:Language Universals have long been attributed to an innate Universal Grammar. An alternative explanation states that linguistic Universals emerged independently in every language in response to shared cognitive or perceptual biases. A computational model has recently shown how this could be the case, focusing on the paradigmatic example of the Universal properties of colour naming patterns, and producing results in quantitative agreement with the experimental data. Here we investigate the role of an individual perceptual bias in the framework of the model. We study how, and to what extent, the structure of the bias influences the corresponding linguistic Universal patterns. We show that the cultural history of a group of speakers introduces population-specific constraints that act against the pressure for uniformity arising from the individual bias, and we clarify the interplay between these two forces.
Brian Macwhinney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a multiple process solution to the logical problem of language acquisition
Journal of Child Language, 2004Co-Authors: Brian MacwhinneyAbstract:Many researchers believe that there is a logical problem at the centre of language acquisition theory. According to this analysis, the input to the learner is too inconsistent and incomplete to determine the acquisition of Grammar. Moreover, when corrective feedback is provided, children tend to ignore it. As a result, language learning must rely on additional constraints from Universal Grammar. To solve this logical problem, theorists have proposed a series of constraints and parameterizations on the form of Universal Grammar. Plausible alternatives to these constraints include: conservatism, item-based learning, indirect negative evidence, competition, cue construction, and monitoring. Careful analysis of child language corpora has cast doubt on claims regarding the absence of positive exemplars. Using demonstrably available positive data, simple learning procedures can be formulated for each of the syntactic structures that have traditionally motivated invocation of the logical problem. Within the perspective of emergentist theory (MacWhinney, 2001), the operation of a set of mutually supportive processes is viewed as providing multiple buffering for developmental outcomes. However, the fact that some syntactic structures are more difficult to learn than others can be used to highlight areas of intense grammatical competition and processing load.
Michel Degraff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Null Theory of Creole Formation Based on Universal Grammar
The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar, 2016Co-Authors: Enoch O Aboh, Michel DegraffAbstract:Creole languages are typically the linguistic side effects of the creation of global economies based on the forced migration and labor of enslaved Africans toiling in European colonies in the Americas. Section 1 addresses terminological and methodological preliminaries in Creole studies, including definitions of ‘Creole’ languages that contradict some of the fundamental assumptions in studies of Universal Grammar (UG). Section 2 evaluates Creole-formation hypotheses, including claims about the lesser grammatical complexity of Creoles and about an exceptional ‘Creole typology’ outside the scope of the Comparative Method in historical linguistics. Section 3 offers the sketch of a framework for a Null Theory of Creole Formation (NTC) that excludes sui generis stipulations about Creole formation and Creole languages and that is rooted in UG, as it applies to all languages. Section 4 concludes the paper with open-ended questions on the place of Creole formation within larger patterns of contact-induced language change.
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some notes on bare noun phrases in haitian creole and gungbe
2014Co-Authors: Enoch O Aboh, Michel DegraffAbstract:This paper discusses noun phrases in Haitian Creole (HC), a French-derived Creole, and in Gungbe, a Gbe language. These languages exhibit “bare noun phrases” (BNPs) in a wider range of positions than in French, English and the other most commonly studied Romance and Germanic languages. Studies on the formation of HC show that many of the creators of the earliest Creole varieties in 17th-century Saint-Domingue were native speakers of Niger-Congo languages including Gbe language. We believe that by close analysis of specific domains of the Creole (e.g. BNPs) and by comparing these patterns to their analogues in the languages in contact during the emergence of the Creole, we can better understand how Universal Grammar regulates the emergence of new varieties out of language contact.
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some notes on bare nouns in haitian creole and in gungbe a transatlantic sprachbund perspective
Studies in language companion series, 2014Co-Authors: Enoch O Aboh, Michel DegraffAbstract:This paper discusses noun phrases in Haitian Creole (HC), a French-derived Creole, and in Gungbe, a Gbe language. These languages exhibit "bare noun phrases" (BNPs) in a wider range of positions than in French, English and the other most commonly studied Romance and Germanic languages. Studies on the formation of HC show that many of the creators of the earliest Creole varieties in 17th-century Saint-Domingue were native speakers of Niger-Congo languages including Gbe language. We believe that by close analysis of specific domains of the Creole (e.g. BNPs) and by comparing these patterns to their analogues in the languages in contact during the emergence of the Creole, we can better understand how Universal Grammar regulates the emergence of new varieties out of language contact.
