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Language adaptation and learning: Getting explicit about implicit learning
Author(s) -
Chang Franklin,
Janciauskas Marius,
Fitz Hartmut
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1002/lnc3.337
Subject(s) - connectionism , adaptation (eye) , phonology , linguistics , priming (agriculture) , implicit learning , phonotactics , computer science , syntax , language acquisition , repetition (rhetorical device) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , cognition , artificial neural network , philosophy , botany , germination , neuroscience , biology
Linguistic adaptation is a phenomenon where language representations change in response to linguistic input. Adaptation can occur on multiple linguistic levels such as phonology (tuning of phonotactic constraints), words (repetition priming), and syntax (structural priming). The persistent nature of these adaptations suggests that they may be a form of implicit learning and connectionist models have been developed which instantiate this hypothesis. Research on implicit learning, however, has also produced evidence that explicit chunk knowledge is involved in the performance of these tasks. In this review, we examine how these interacting implicit and explicit processes may change our understanding of language learning and processing.