Cel "Children learn any language that they grow up with, adapting to any of the ca. 7000 languages of the world, no matter how divergent or complex their structures are. What cognitive processes make this extreme flexibility possible? This is one of the most burning questions in cognitive science and the ACQDIV project aims at answering it by testing and refining the following leading hypothesis: Language acquisition is flexible and adaptive to any kind of language because it relies on a small set of universal cognitive processes that variably target different structures at different times during acquisition in every language. The project aims at establishing the precise set of processes and at determining the conditions of variation across maximally diverse languages. This project focuses on three processes: (i) distributional learning, (ii) generalization-based learning and (iii) interaction-based learning. To investigate these processes I will work with a sample of five clusters of languages including longitudinal data of two languages each. The clusters were determined by a clustering algorithm seeking the structurally most divergent languages in a typological database. The languages are: Cluster 1: Slavey and Cree, Cluster 2: Indonesian and Yucatec, Cluster 3: Inuktitut and Chintang, Cluster 4: Sesotho and Russian, Cluster 5: Japanese and Turkish. For all languages, corpora are available, except for Slavey where fieldwork is planned. The leading hypothesis will be tested against the acquisition of aspect and negation in each language of the sample and also against the two structures in each language that are most salient and challenging in them (e. g. complex morphology in Chintang). The acquisition processes also depend on statistical patterns in the input children receive. I will examine these patterns across the sample with respect to repetitiveness effects, applying data-mining methods and systematically comparing child-directed and child-surrounding speech." Dziedzina nauki humanitieslanguages and literaturegeneral language studiessocial sciencespsychologypsycholinguistics Program(-y) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) ERC-CG-2013-SH4 - ERC Consolidator Grant - The Human Mind and its Complexity Zaproszenie do składania wniosków ERC-2013-CoG Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania ERC-CG - ERC Consolidator Grants Instytucja przyjmująca University of Zurich Wkład UE € 1 998 438,00 Adres RAMISTRASSE 71 8006 ZURICH Szwajcaria Zobacz na mapie Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kierownik naukowy Sabine Erika Stoll (Prof.) Kontakt administracyjny Sabine Erika Stoll (Prof.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Beneficjenci (1) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko University of Zurich Szwajcaria Wkład UE € 1 998 438,00 Adres RAMISTRASSE 71 8006 ZURICH Zobacz na mapie Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kierownik naukowy Sabine Erika Stoll (Prof.) Kontakt administracyjny Sabine Erika Stoll (Prof.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych
