Investigating the Cause of Language Regularization in Adults: Memory Constraints or Learning Effects?
Investigating the Cause of Language Regularization in Adults: Memory Constraints or Learning Effects?
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015097
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Chang, Ann
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作者：
Kam, Carla L. Hudson;Chang, Ann
当语言学习者接触到不一致的概率语法模式时，他们有时会将一致性强加于语言，而不是真实地学习变异。作者假设这种规则化是由于单词检索的问题，而不是学习本身。其中一个预测，即减轻词汇检索的要求导致较少的正则化，进行了测试。成人学习者接触到一种语言包含不一致的概率模式，并进行了测试，无论是一个标准的生产任务或两个任务之一，减少了词汇检索的要求。正如预测的那样，与标准任务相比，使用修改后的任务进行测试的参与者更接近不一致项目的概率。
When language learners are exposed to inconsistent probabilistic grammatical patterns, they sometimes impose consistency on the language instead of learning the variation veridically. The authors hypothesized that this regularization results from problems with word retrieval rather than from learning per se. One prediction of this, that easing the demands of lexical retrieval leads to less regularization, was tested. Adult learners were exposed to a language containing inconsistent probabilistic patterns and were tested with either a standard production task or one of two tasks that reduced the demands of lexical retrieval. As predicted, participants tested with the modified tasks more closely matched the probability of the inconsistent items than did those tested with the standard task.