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| Title |
Language play facilitates language learning: Optimizing the input for gender-like category induction
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| Published in |
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, February 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s41235-016-0038-z |
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| Authors |
Johanna Bebout, Eva Belke |
| Abstract |
Gender induction has been claimed to be virtually impossible unless nouns provide reliable semantic or phonological gender-relevant cues. However, learners might exploit syntactic cues, such as definite articles, to infer the gender of gender-unmarked nouns. In children's poems and songs, such syntactic cues are presented in a highly structured fashion. We assessed gender-like category induction in an artificial language that provided exclusively syntactic cues for its gender-like subclasses. We trained participants with structured or unstructured input presented in a prose, a rhyming, a melodic, or a rhyming and melodic fashion. Input structuring significantly facilitated gender-like category induction. Participants trained in the Rhyme-and-Melody mode significantly outperformed participants trained in the Prose mode, especially when the input was structured. The Rhyme-only and Melody-only modes yielded intermediate results. Thus, a highly structured rhyming and melodic input substantially facilitates gender-like category induction, making a case for the use of children's songs in language teaching. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Germany | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Scientists | 3 | 60% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 27 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 26% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 6 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Neuroscience | 5 | 19% |
| Psychology | 5 | 19% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 15% |
| Linguistics | 2 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 6 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2017.
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