{"pk":28204,"title":"Tuning in to non-adjacent dependencies: How experience with learnable patterns supports learning novel regularities","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Non-adjacent dependencies are ubiquitous in language, butdifficult to learn. Previous research has shown that the presenceof high variability between dependent items facilitateslearning. Yet what allows learning of non-adjacentdependencies even without high variability in interveningelements? One possibility is that learning non-adjacentdependencies highlights similar structures, allowing people tolearn new non-adjacent dependencies that are otherwisedifficult. In two studies, we show how being exposed tolearnable non-adjacent dependencies can change learners’sensitivity to novel non-adjacent regularities that are moredifficult to detect. These findings demonstrate a new way inwhich learning can build on and shape later learning aboutcomplex linguistic structure.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"non-adjacent dependency"},{"word":"Language Learning"},{"word":"grammar"},{"word":"Artificial language learning"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79n6b8d3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Martin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zettersten","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Christine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Potter","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton","department":""},{"first_name":"Jenny","middle_name":"","last_name":"Saffran","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","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/28204/galley/17863/download/"}]}