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    "pk": 27021,
    "title": "Simultaneous acquisition of vocabulary and grammar\nin an artificial language learning task",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Learning syntax requires determining relations between the\ngrammatical categories of words in the language, but learning\nthose categories requires understanding the role of words in\nthe syntax. In this study, we examined how this chicken and\negg problem is resolved by learners of an artificial language\ncomprising nouns, verbs, adjectives and case markers\nfollowing syntactic rules. We found that the language could\nbe acquired through cross-situational statistical\ncorrespondences with complex scenes and without explicit\nfeedback, and that knowledge was maintained after 24 hours.\nResults also showed that verbs and word order were the first\nto be acquired, followed by nouns, adjectives and finally case\nmarkers. Interdependencies in learning were found for word\norder and verbs, and also for nouns, adjectives and case\nmarkers. Grammar and vocabulary can be acquired\nsimultaneously, but with distinctive patterns of acquisition –\ngrammar and the role of verbs first, then the vocabulary of\nother lexical categories.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "language acquisition; grammar; vocabulary;\nartificial language learning; statistical learning."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gp5f002",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Neil",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Walker",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Christine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schoetensack",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Edinburgh University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Padraic",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Monaghan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Patrick",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rebuschat",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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