Adam Liter
Biographic Data
| ID | 9294486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Liter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Liter |
| SIGNATURE | LITER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1517-2900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cognitive inhibition explains children’s production of medial wh -phrases
Non-adult-like linguistic behavior in children is sometimes taken as evidence for endogenous factors that drive selection of grammatical features from the child’s hypothesis space of possible grammars. Analyses of English-acquiring children’s productions of medial wh-phrases exemplify this trend in particular. We provide an alternative account of these productions as performance errors arising from underdeveloped cognitive inhibition. We offer ex…
The development of language and its interaction with other aspects of cognition
Preschool children acquiring English and Brazilian Portuguese display a peculiar behavior when prompted to produce multi-clause wh-questions. In elicited production tasks, structures with an extra wh-element in medial position are sometimes produced. Such medial questions are impossible in the adult languages being acquired. Following a hypothesis put forth by Grolla & Lidz (2018), we propose that children’s productions are not generated by child…
There is a simplicity bias when generalising from ambiguous data
How exactly do learners generalise in the face of ambiguous data? While there has been a substantial amount of research studying the biases that learners employ, there has been very little work on what sorts of biases are employed in the face of data that is ambiguous between phonological generalisations with different degrees of complexity. In this article, we present the results from three artificial language learning experiments that suggest t…
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The development of language and its interaction with other aspects of cognition
Preschool children acquiring English and Brazilian Portuguese display a peculiar behavior when prompted to produce multi-clause wh-questions. In elicited production tasks, structures with an extra wh-element in medial position are sometimes produced. Such medial questions are impossible in the adult languages being acquired. Following a hypothesis put forth by Grolla & Lidz (2018), we propose that children’s productions are not generated by child…
There is a simplicity bias when generalising from ambiguous data
How exactly do learners generalise in the face of ambiguous data? While there has been a substantial amount of research studying the biases that learners employ, there has been very little work on what sorts of biases are employed in the face of data that is ambiguous between phonological generalisations with different degrees of complexity. In this article, we present the results from three artificial language learning experiments that suggest t…
Cognitive inhibition explains children’s production of medial wh -phrases
Non-adult-like linguistic behavior in children is sometimes taken as evidence for endogenous factors that drive selection of grammatical features from the child’s hypothesis space of possible grammars. Analyses of English-acquiring children’s productions of medial wh-phrases exemplify this trend in particular. We provide an alternative account of these productions as performance errors arising from underdeveloped cognitive inhibition. We offer ex…
Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Grammar (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Neuroscience (2 works)