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    "pk": 29889,
    "title": "Learners’ bias to balance production effort against message uncertainty is\nindependent of their native language",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Miniature language learning is gaining increasing popularity to\nstudy biases underlying language universals. However, it is\nunclear whether learning preferences in these studies are\ninfluenced by learners’ native language. We ask whether a\npreviously identified bias to balance production effort against\nmessage uncertainty holds across speakers of structurally\ndifferent languages. We expose English (fixed order language\nwithout case) and German (flexible order language with case)\nspeakers to miniature languages with optional case and either\nfixed or flexible constituent order and study their deviations from\nthe input. We find that English and German speakers restructure\nthe input in the same way: They match the input constituent order\nproportions and use more case in the flexible order language than\nin the fixed order language, thus following the bias to balance\nproduction effort against message uncertainty. Our findings\nsuggest that this bias and its specific realization are independent\nof learners’ native language.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Language universals; miniature language learning;\nL1 influences; efficient information transmission; language\nevolution"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 2",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9427q0qq",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Lucy",
            "middle_name": "Hall",
            "last_name": "Hartley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Arizona",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Masha",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Fedzechkina",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Arizona",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}