@inproceedings{2ff01bcca54a447dacb3961a9270b1e5,
title = "Production is biased to provide informative cues early: Evidence from miniature artificial languages",
abstract = "The role of processing constraints on sentence structure has been a topic of central interest in cognitive science. One proposal (Hawkins, 2004) suggests that language production system is organized to facilitate efficient parsing. We experimentally test this hypothesis using a miniature artificial language learning paradigm. Our findings support this account. Even though the input languages did not favor early placement of cues to grammatical function assignment (case and word order), participants used these cues in their own productions significantly more often in such a way as to allow early correct parsing commitments. This preference interacted with a bias to mark the less expected: Participants tended to use more case-marking in non-English OSV sentences. Our results underscore the potential of miniature artificial learning for language production research.",
keywords = "artificial language learning, language acquisition, language processing, language production",
author = "Maryia Fedzechkina and Jaeger, {T. Florian} and Trueswell, {John C.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank C. Schneider, K. Woodard, J. Padilla, and B. Oshiba for their help with data collection and annotation; C. Donatelli, I. Minkina, and A. Wood for their help creating video stimuli. This work was supported in part by NSF CAREER grant IIS-1150028 to TFJ, and by NIH grant 1-R01-HD 37507 to JCT. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015.All rights reserved.; 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015 ; Conference date: 23-07-2015 Through 25-07-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "674--679",
editor = "Noelle, {David C.} and Rick Dale and Anne Warlaumont and Jeff Yoshimi and Teenie Matlock and Jennings, {Carolyn D.} and Maglio, {Paul P.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
}