Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars

	Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars
	Rohrmeier, Martin 1; Fu, Qiufang2 ; Dienes, Zoltan 3,4; Rohrmeier, M (reprint author), Free Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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摘要	Context-free grammars are fundamental for the description of linguistic syntax. However, most artificial grammar learning experiments have explored learning of simpler finite-state grammars, while studies exploring context-free grammars have not assessed awareness and implicitness. This paper explores the implicit learning of context-free grammars employing features of hierarchical organization, recursive embedding and long-distance dependencies. The grammars also featured the distinction between left-and right-branching structures, as well as between centre-and tail-embedding, both distinctions found in natural languages. People acquired unconscious knowledge of relations between grammatical classes even for dependencies over long distances, in ways that went beyond learning simpler relations (e.g. n-grams) between individual words. The structural distinctions drawn from linguistics also proved important as performance was greater for tail-embedding than centre-embedding structures. The results suggest the plausibility of implicit learning of complex context-free structures, which model some features of natural languages. They support the relevance of artificial grammar learning for probing mechanisms of language learning and challenge existing theories and computational models of implicit learning.
学科领域	Cognitive Psychology
	2012-10-19
语种	英语
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
卷号	7 期号:10 页码:e45885
期刊论文类型	Article
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收录类别	SCI
项目简介	This research was supported in part by grants from 973 Program of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (2011CB302201), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30900395). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
WOS记录号	WOS:000310050200006
资助机构	Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology [2011CB302201] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China [30900395]
引用统计	被引频次：31[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/12853
专题	脑与认知科学国家重点实验室
通讯作者	Rohrmeier, M (reprint author), Free Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
作者单位	1.Free Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, State Key Lab Brain & Cognit Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Univ Sussex, Sackler Ctr Consciousness Sci, Brighton, E Sussex, England 4.Univ Sussex, Sch Psychol, Brighton, E Sussex, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rohrmeier, Martin,Fu, Qiufang,Dienes, Zoltan,et al. Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars[J]. PLOS ONE,2012,7(10):e45885.
APA	Rohrmeier, Martin,Fu, Qiufang,Dienes, Zoltan,&Rohrmeier, M .(2012).Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars.PLOS ONE,7(10),e45885.
MLA	Rohrmeier, Martin,et al."Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars".PLOS ONE 7.10(2012):e45885.

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