{"pk":28120,"title":"Egocentric and allocentric learning of social-indexical meaning in American English, Datooga, and Murrinhpatha","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We address competing perspectives on how social-indexicalmeaning is learned in language, using data from artificial lan-guage learning experiments and two studies in small-scalesocieties. Our results indicate that learning social-indexicalmeaning is primarily allocentric as opposed to egocentric:speaker success in learning a social-indexical meaning patterndepends on overall exposure to the pattern more than the pat-tern’s relative importance to the speaker. We base these claimson data from American English-speaking adults, Datooga-speaking children, as well as adults and children speakingMurrinhpatha. The results highlight the importance of widen-ing the sample of methods and data sources in studying howvariation in language is learned and maintained.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"anguage learning"},{"word":"Variation"},{"word":"American English"},{"word":"Datooga"},{"word":"Murrinhpatha"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tv3p387","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Racz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Bristol","department":""},{"first_name":"Alice","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mitchell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Bristol","department":""},{"first_name":"Joe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Blythe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Macquarie University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28120/galley/17780/download/"}]}