Search Results - "Monaghan, Padraic"

How arbitrary is language? by Monaghan, Padraic, Shillcock, Richard C., Christiansen, Morten H., Kirby, Simon

“…It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of words is essentially arbitrary—typically the sound of a word gives no…”
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Constraints on novel word learning in heritage speakers by Ge, Yuxin, Rato, Anabela, Rebuschat, Patrick, Monaghan, Padraic

“…Recent research on word learning has found that adults can rapidly learn novel words by tracking cross-situational statistics, but learning is greatly…”
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The Role of Sound Symbolism in Language Learning by MONAGHAN, Padraic, MATTOCK, Karen, WALKER, Peter

“…Certain correspondences between the sound and meaning of words can be observed in subsets of the vocabulary. These sound-symbolic relationships have been…”
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The role of feedback and instruction on the cross-situational learning of vocabulary and morphosyntax: Mixed effects models reveal local and global effects on acquisition by Monaghan, Padraic, Ruiz, Simón, Rebuschat, Patrick

“…First language acquisition is implicit, in that explicit information about the language structure to be learned is not provided to children. Instead, they must…”
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Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning by Cheung, Rachael W., Hartley, Calum, Monaghan, Padraic

“…Learning the meaning of a word is a difficult task due to the variety of possible referents present in the environment. Visual cues such as gestures frequently…”
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Can 3-year-old children learn verbs using an educational touchscreen app? by Taylor, Gemma, Westermann, Gert, Monaghan, Padraic

“…IntroductionResearch demonstrates that children can learn nouns using touchscreen apps, however there has been less attention to whether apps can also promote…”
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The Arbitrariness of the Sign: Learning Advantages From the Structure of the Vocabulary by Monaghan, Padraic, Christiansen, Morten H, Fitneva, Stanka A

“…Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (e.g., in the…”
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A Single Paradigm for Implicit and Statistical Learning by Monaghan, Padraic, Schoetensack, Christine, Rebuschat, Patrick

“…Implicit learning generally refers to the acquisition of structures that, like knowledge of natural language grammar, are not available to awareness. In…”
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Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children by Taylor, Gemma, Kolak, Joanna, Norgate, Sarah H., Monaghan, Padraic

“…•We assessed the educational potential and language content of 44 children's apps.•Apps with a learning goal have more features for learning and language…”
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Phonological Typicality Influences On-Line Sentence Comprehension by Farmer, Thomas A., Christiansen, Morten H., Monaghan, Padraic

“…Since Saussure, the relationship between the sound and the meaning of words has been regarded as largely arbitrary. Here, however, we show that a probabilistic…”
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Exploring the "anchor word" effect in infants: Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words by Frost, Rebecca L A, Dunn, Kirsty, Christiansen, Morten H, Gómez, Rebecca L, Monaghan, Padraic

“…High frequency words play a key role in language acquisition, with recent work suggesting they may serve both speech segmentation and lexical categorisation…”
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Sleep-Driven Computations in Speech Processing by Frost, Rebecca L A, Monaghan, Padraic

“…Acquiring language requires segmenting speech into individual words, and abstracting over those words to discover grammatical structure. However, these tasks…”
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The role of chronotype and reward processing in understanding social hierarchies in adolescence by Lunn, Judith, Wilcockson, Thomas, Donovan, Tim, Dondelinger, Frank, Perez Algorta, Guillermo, Monaghan, Padraic

“…Introduction Circadian rhythms shift toward an evening preference during adolescence, a developmental period marked by greater focus on the social domain and…”
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Syntactic structure and artificial grammar learning: The learnability of embedded hierarchical structures by de Vries, Meinou H., Monaghan, Padraic, Knecht, Stefan, Zwitserlood, Pienie

“…Embedded hierarchical structures, such as “the rat the cat ate was brown”, constitute a core generative property of a natural language theory. Several recent…”
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Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing by Onnis, Luca, Monaghan, Padraic, Richmond, Korin, Chater, Nick

“…Peña, Bonatti, Nespor, and Mehler (2002) investigated an artificial language where the structure of words was determined by nonadjacent dependencies between…”
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Eye-Fixation Behavior, Lexical Storage, and Visual Word Recognition in a Split Processing Model by Shillcock, Richard, Ellison, T. Mark, Monaghan, Padraic

“…Some of the implications of a model of visual word recognition in which processing is conditioned by the anatomical splitting of the visual field between the…”
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Age of acquisition predicts rate of lexical evolution by Monaghan, Padraic

“…•A direct link is established between language acquisition and language evolution.•Early-acquired words change less rapidly as a consequence of language…”
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Canalization of Language Structure From Environmental Constraints: A Computational Model of Word Learning From Multiple Cues by Monaghan, Padraic

“…There is substantial variation in language experience, yet there is surprising similarity in the language structure acquired. Constraints on language structure…”
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When does sleep affect veridical and false memory consolidation? A meta-analysis by Newbury, Chloe Rhianne, Monaghan, Padraic

“…It is widely accepted that sleep aids in the encoding, consolidation, and retrieval processes involved in memory processing; however, the conditions under…”
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Learning vocabulary and grammar from cross-situational statistics by Rebuschat, Patrick, Monaghan, Padraic, Schoetensack, Christine

“…Across multiple situations, child and adult learners are sensitive to co-occurrences between individual words and their referents in the environment, which…”
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