Artificial grammar learning
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Artificial Grammar Learning is a paradigm of study within cognitive psychology
. Its goal is to investigate the processes that underlie human language learning, by testing subjects' ability to learn a made-up language in a laboratory setting. The area of interest is typically the subjects' ability to detect patterns and statistical regularities during a training phase, and then use their new knowledge of those patterns in a testing phase. The testing phase can either use the symbols or sounds used in the training phase or transfer the patterns to another set of symbols or sounds as surface structure.
Apart from humans, the paradigm has also been used to investigate pattern learning in other species, e.g. cottontop tamarins
and starlings.
A related problem is the induction of a grammar for an unknown language given a parallel text in a known language, what might be called the "Rosetta Stone
" problem. Kuhn's ACL paper (2004) presents techniques for this problem http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jonask/kuhn-acl04-final.pdf.
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes.It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.Cognitive psychology differs from previous psychological approaches in two key ways....
. Its goal is to investigate the processes that underlie human language learning, by testing subjects' ability to learn a made-up language in a laboratory setting. The area of interest is typically the subjects' ability to detect patterns and statistical regularities during a training phase, and then use their new knowledge of those patterns in a testing phase. The testing phase can either use the symbols or sounds used in the training phase or transfer the patterns to another set of symbols or sounds as surface structure.
Apart from humans, the paradigm has also been used to investigate pattern learning in other species, e.g. cottontop tamarins
Cottontop Tamarin
The cotton-top tamarin , also known as the Pinché tamarin, is a small New World monkey weighing less than 1 lb...
and starlings.
A related problem is the induction of a grammar for an unknown language given a parallel text in a known language, what might be called the "Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek...
" problem. Kuhn's ACL paper (2004) presents techniques for this problem http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jonask/kuhn-acl04-final.pdf.