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Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Sentence Structure: Integrating Experimental and Computational Approaches

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL 

Organization address
address: BROWNLOW HILL 765 FOUNDATION BUILDING
city: LIVERPOOL
postcode: L69 7ZX
website: www.liverpool.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Project website http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/
 Total cost 1˙600˙000 €
 EC max contribution 1˙600˙000 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2015-CoG
 Funding Scheme ERC-COG
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-09-01   to  2020-08-31

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL UK (LIVERPOOL) coordinator 1˙250˙858.00
2    THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM IL (JERUSALEM) participant 210˙222.00
3    UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA GT (GUATEMALA) participant 93˙572.00
4    THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING UK (STIRLING) participant 33˙926.00
5    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE UK (GLASGOW) participant 11˙419.00

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 Project objective

How children acquire their native language remains one of the key unsolved problems in Cognitive Science. This project will answer a question that lies at the heart of this problem: How do children acquire the abstract generalizations that allow them to produce novel sentences, while avoiding the ungrammatical utterances that result from across-the-board application of these generalizations (e.g., *The clown laughed the man)? Previous single-process theories (the entrenchment, preemption and verb semantics hypotheses) fail to explain all of the current English data, and do not begin to address the issue of how learners of other languages solve this learnability problem. The aim of the present project is to solve this problem by developing and testing a new unified cross-linguistic account of the development of sentence structure. In addition to the overarching theoretical question set out above, the research will address four key questions: (1) What do learners bring to the task in terms of cognitive-semantic universals?; (2) How do children form linguistic generalizations in the first place?; (3) Why are languages the way they are; would other types of systems be difficult or impossible to learn?; (4) What is the nature of development?. These questions will be addressed by means of four Work Packages (WPs). WP1 uses grammaticality judgment and elicited production paradigms developed by the PI to investigate the acquisition of basic transitive and intransitive sentence structure (e.g., The man broke the window/The window broke) across six typologically different languages: English, K’iche’ Mayan, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and Turkish (at ages 3-4, 5-6, 9-10 and 18 years). WP2 uses the same paradigms to investigate idiosyncratic language-specific generalizations within three of these languages. WP3 uses Artificial Grammar Learning to focus on the issue of language evolution. WP4 uses computational modeling to investigate and simulate development.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2018 Ben Ambridge, Libby Barak, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Colin Bannard, Giovanni Sala
Effects of Both Preemption and Entrenchment in the Retreat from Verb Overgeneralization Errors: Four Reanalyses, an Extended Replication, and a Meta-Analytic Synthesis
published pages: 19, ISSN: 2474-7394, DOI: 10.1525/collabra.133
Collabra: Psychology 4/1 2019-05-10

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