Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience
Article Date: 16 Mar 2011 – 2:00 PDT
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New research published in Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) firmly establishes that language learning goes well beyond simple imitation, and in fact that language learners are quite creative and remarkably smart. Not only are learners able to generalize grammatical restrictions to new words in a category – in this case, made-up adjectives – but they also do not learn these restrictions in situations where they can be attributed to some irrelevant factor.
This point is driven home in an article, “Learning what not to say: The role of statistical preemption and categor………….
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