Regularisation, systematicity and naturalness in a silent gesture learning task. Motamedi, Y., Wolters, L., Naegeli, D., Schouwstra, M., & Kirby, S. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, volume 43, 2021.
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Typological analysis of the world’s language shows that, of the 6 possible basic word orders, SOV and SVO orders are predominant, a preference supported by experimental studies in which participants improvise gestures to describe events. Silent gesture studies have also provided evidence for natural ordering patterns, where SOV and SVO orders are used selectively depending on the semantics of the event, a finding recently supported by data from natural sign languages. We present an artificial language learning task using gesture to ask to what extent preferences for natural ordering patterns, in addition to biases for regular languages, are at play during learning in the manual modality.
@inproceedings{motamedi:21c,
  title = {Regularisation, systematicity and naturalness in a silent gesture learning task},
  author = {Motamedi, Yasamin and Wolters, Lucie and Naegeli, Danielle and Schouwstra, Marieke and Kirby, Simon},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},
  volume = {43},
  number = {43},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://escholarship.org/content/qt8xf3216h/qt8xf3216h.pdf?t=qwi3pz&v=lg},
  abstract = {Typological analysis of the world’s language shows that, of the 6 possible basic word orders, SOV and SVO orders are predominant, a preference supported by experimental studies in which participants improvise gestures to describe events. Silent gesture studies have also provided evidence for natural ordering patterns, where SOV and SVO orders are used selectively depending on the semantics of the event, a finding recently supported by data from natural sign languages. We present an artificial language learning task using gesture to ask to what extent preferences for natural ordering patterns, in addition to biases for regular languages, are at play during learning in the manual modality.}
}

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