Mark S. Seidenberg
Language and the Mind Presentation (02/07/2003)
We will be discussing an ongoing controversy about the roles
of statistical and grammatical processes in language learning.
People should note that although there are a lot of articles
here, most are short articles from Science or letters
responding to them. All of the ones that are > 1 year old
are downloadable from the Science website for free,
www.sciencemag.org.
People who do not want to read the whole series could start
with Seidenberg (1997), which
provides an overview of the research to that point, and then
pick up with the Marcus et al.
(1999) and Peña et
al. (2002) studies and the responses to them.
-Mark Seidenberg
Readings:
[view individually (below) or download
together as a single *.zip file]
- Saffran, J.R., Aslin, R.N.,
& Newport, E.L. (1996). Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old
Infants. Science 274:5294, 1926-1928.
- Bates E., Elman J. (1996).
Learning Rediscovered. Science 274, 1849-1850.
- Acquiring Language / Letters
from: David Pesetsky et al., Steven Pinker, Lyle Jenkins
& Allan Maxam, Robin Clark et al., Jeffrey Elman &
Elizabeth Bates, Jenny R. Saffran et al. (1997). Science
276, 1177-1181.
- Seidenberg, M.S. (1997). Language
acquisition and use: Learning and applying probabilistic
constraints. Science, 275, 1599-1604.
- Marcus, G.F., Vijayan, S., Bandi
Rao, S., & Vishton, P.M. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old
infants. Science 283, 77-80.
- Do Infants Learn Grammar
with Algebra or Statistics? / Letters from: Seidenberg &
Elman, Negishi, Eimas, Marcus. (1999) Science 284,
433.
- Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). Rule learning
by seven-month-old infants and neural networks. Science
284, 875a. Includes Marcus' response.
- Peña, M., Bonatti, L.L.,
Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2002). Signal-Driven Computations
in Speech Processing. Science 298: 604-607; Published
online August 29, 2002; 10.1126/science.1072901.
- Seidenberg, M.S., MacDonald,
M.C., & Saffran, J.R. (2002). Does grammar start where
statistics stop? Science, 298, 553-554.
Other articles of interest in this series:
- Hauser, M., Newport, E., & Aslin, N. (2002). Segmentation
of the speech stream in a non-human primate: statistical
learning in cotton-top tamarins. Cognition, 75,
1-12.
- Kirkham, N.Z., Slemmer, J.A., & Johnson, S. P. (2002).
Visual statistical learning in infancy: evidence of a domain
general learning mechanism. Cognition, 83(2), B35-B42.
- Hauser, M.D., Chomsky, N., & Fitch, W.T. (2002). The
Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did
It Evolve? Science, 298, 1569-1579.
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