Bovolenta, Giulia orcid.org/0000-0003-4139-6446 and Marsden, Emma orcid.org/0000-0003-4086-5765 (2021) Expectation Violation Leads to Generalization:The Effect of Prediction Error on the Acquisition of New Syntactic Structures. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, 26-29 Jul 2021 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society . , AUT , pp. 875-881.
Abstract
Prediction error is known to enhance priming effects for familiar syntactic structures; it also strengthens the formation of new declarative memories. Here, we investigate whether violating expectations may aid the acquisition of new abstract syntactic structures, too, by enhancing memory for individual instances which can then form the basis for abstraction. In a cross-situational artificial language learning paradigm, participants were exposed to novel syntactic structures in ways that either violated their expectations (Surprisal group) or that conformed to them (Control group). Results from a delayed post-test show that participants in the Surprisal group developed stronger representations of the structures’ form-meaning mappings and were better able to generalize them to new instances, relative to the Control group.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021.All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | artificial language learning,cross-situational learning,language acquisition,prediction error,syntax |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2021 15:30 |
Last Modified: | 27 Dec 2024 00:29 |
Status: | Published |
Series Name: | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177552 |
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