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Behavioral and Imaging Studies of Infant Artificial Grammar Learning

Judit Gervain
Louann Gerken
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Artificial grammar learning (AGL) paradigms have proven to be productive and useful to investigate how young infants break into the grammar of their native language(s). The question of when infants first show the ability to learn abstract grammatical rules has been central to theoretical debates about the innate vs. learned nature of grammar. The presence of this ability early in development, that is, before considerable experience with language, has been argued to provide evidence for a biologically endowed ability to acquire language. Artificial grammar learning tasks also allow infant populations to be readily compared with adults and non-human animals. Artificial grammar learning paradigms with infants have been used to investigate a number of linguistic phenomena and learning tasks, from word segmentation to phonotactics and morphosyntax. In this review, we focus on AGL studies testing infants' ability to learn grammatical/structural properties of language. Specifically, we discuss the results of AGL studies focusing on repetition-based regularities, the categorization of functors, adjacent and non-adjacent dependencies, and word order. We discuss the implications of the results for a general theory of language acquisition, and we outline some of the open questions and challenges. Correspondence should be sent to
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hal-02346054 , version 1 (04-11-2019)

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Judit Gervain, Irene de La Cruz-Pavía, Louann Gerken. Behavioral and Imaging Studies of Infant Artificial Grammar Learning. Topics in cognitive science, 2018, pp.1 - 13. ⟨10.1111/tops.12400⟩. ⟨hal-02346054⟩
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