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Acquiring and Producing Sentences: Whether Learners Use Verb-Specific or Verb-General Information Depends on Cue Validity

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016
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Title
Acquiring and Producing Sentences: Whether Learners Use Verb-Specific or Verb-General Information Depends on Cue Validity
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Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00404
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Malathi Thothathiri, Michelle G Rattinger

Abstract

Learning to produce sentences involves learning patterns that enable the generation of new utterances. Language contains both verb-specific and verb-general regularities that are relevant to this capacity. Previous research has focused on whether one source is more important than the other. We tested whether the production system can flexibly learn to use either source, depending on the predictive validity of different cues in the input. Participants learned new sentence structures in a miniature language paradigm. In three experiments, we manipulated whether individual verbs or verb-general mappings better predicted the structures heard during learning. Evaluation of participants' subsequent production revealed that they could use either the structural preferences of individual verbs or abstract meaning-to-form mappings to construct new sentences. Further, this choice varied according to cue validity. These results demonstrate flexibility within the production architecture and the importance of considering how language was learned when discussing how language is used.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 38%
Student > Bachelor 4 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Researcher 2 10%
Professor 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 43%
Linguistics 6 29%
Neuroscience 2 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 1 5%
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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 02 February 2020.
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#6,911,765
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#9,955
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#97,971
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#198
of 475 outputs
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