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CATEGORIES:Cambridge Linguistics Forum
SUMMARY:The interaction between simplicity and naturalness
  in nominal word order typology - Dr Jennifer Culb
 ertson (University of Edinburgh)
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UID:TALK123880AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/123880
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I discuss the connection between th
 e typological distribution of word orders in the n
 oun phrase\, and cognitive biases active during le
 arning. In particular\, I set out two such biases 
 – one for structural simplicity\, and one for sema
 ntic naturalness – and test how they interact to d
 rive the behaviour of adults and children in a ser
 ies of artificial language learning experiments. T
 he findings across these experiments suggest that 
 developmental and native language transfer effects
  play a role in how new linguistic patterns are le
 arned. Nevertheless\, both simplicity and naturaln
 ess also shape learning outcomes in a way that ali
 gns closely with the typology\, providing a possib
 le explanation for the frequency of particular pat
 terns across the world's languages.
LOCATION:English Faculty Building\, GR-05 (ground floor)
CONTACT:Julia Heine
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