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    "pk": 25817,
    "title": "Characterizing the Difference between Learning about Adjacent\nand Non-adjacent Dependencies",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Many studies of human sequential pattern learning\ndemonstrate that learners detect adjacent and non-adjacent\ndependencies in many kinds of sequences. However, it is\noften assumed that the computational mechanisms behind\nextracting these dependencies are the same. We replicate the\nseminal finding that adults are capable of learning\ndependencies between non-adjacent words (Gómez, 2002).\nWhen we eliminate the positional information about the\nstatistical structures by embedding the structure in phrases,\nlearners can no longer learn the dependencies. Our methods\nallow us to study the learning mechanisms that are more\nrepresentative of the patterns in natural languages, and show\nthat when directly compared, adjacent and non-adjacent\ndependencies are not equally learnable. We suggest that\nlearning non-adjacent dependencies in language involves a\ndifferent computational mechanism from learning adjacent\ndependencies",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Artificial language; Non-adjacent\ndependencies"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bn9d644",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Felix",
            "middle_name": "Hao",
            "last_name": "Wang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Toby",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mintz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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