Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 783188 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vsevolod Kapatsinski |
| PRENOMES | Vsevolod |
| SOBRENOME | Kapatsinski |
| ASSINATURA | KAPATSINSKI V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2156-6551 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Language attitudes and identity in second dialect acquisition
This study investigates to what extent various factors affect the stop production of North Korean refugee speakers living in Seoul, South Korea, from the perspective of second dialect acquisition (SDA). The VOT and F0 values of 6,495 stops were measured from twenty-two North Korean speakers (F: 16, M: 6). The factors examined were age of arrival, length of residence (LoR), and three different aspects of social adaptation (identification, assimila…
Implications of learning models for linguistic theory
This paper introduces the special issue on implications of learning models, such as deep neural networks and instance-based models, for linguistic theory. This special issue aims to address the core question of linguistic theory – what makes human languages the way they are – by comparing models of language learning (i.e., different theories of the language acquisition device). We bring the papers together by discussing a number of recurrent them…
What do you learn from a single cue? Dimensional reweighting and cue reassociation from experience with a newly unreliable phonetic cue
In language comprehension, we use perceptual cues to infer meanings. Some of these cues reside on perceptual dimensions. For example, the difference between bear and pear is cued by a difference in voice onset time (VOT), which is a continuous perceptual dimension. The present paper asks whether, and when, experience with a single value on a dimension behaving unexpectedly is used by the learner to reweight the whole dimension. We show that learn…
Syntagmatic paradigms
What Are Constructions, and What Else Is Out There? An Associationist Perspective
Constructionist approaches to language propose that the language system is a network of constructions, defined as bidirectional mappings between a complex form and a meaning. This paper critically evaluates the evidence for and against two possible construals of this proposal as a psycholinguistic theory: that direct, bidirectional form-meaning associations play a central role in language comprehension and production, and the stronger claim that …
Changing Minds Changing Tools
Language acquisition has often been approached as an isolated domain subject to its own laws and driven by its own mechanisms. The working hypothesis of this book is that language acquisition is simply learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains, and well-described by models of associative learning. ‘Changing minds changing tools’ connects findings in language acquisition to comparable findings elsewhere, including research on…
Distributional learning is error-driven
Much previous research on distributional learning and phonetic categorization assumes that categories are either faithful reproductions or parametric summaries of experienced frequency distributions, acquired through a Hebbian learning process in which every experience contributes equally to the category representation. We suggest that category representations may instead be formed via error-driven predictive learning. Rather than passively stori…
On the intolerance of the Tolerance Principle
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The metrical parse is guided by gradient phonotactics
Phonotactic generalisations can be computed at different levels of granularity, from a coarse-grained legal/illegal dichotomy ( blick , dwick ≻ * bnick , * lbick ) to a fine-grained gradient of acceptability ( blick ≻ dwick ≻ bnick ≻ lbick ). This article investigates the sensitivity of the English metrical parse to the granularity of medial onset phonotactics. We present two experiments that feature pseudo-words with medial consonants and CC clu…
Changing Minds Changing Tools
Lay Listener Classification and Evaluation of Typical and Atypical Children’s Speech
Verbal children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often also have atypical speech. In the context of the many challenges associated with ASD, do speech sound pattern differences really matter? The current study addressed this question. Structured spontaneous speech was elicited from 34 children: 17 with ASD, whose clinicians reported unusual speech prosody; and 17 typically-developing, age-matched controls. Multiword utterances were excerpted f…
Heike Behrens and Stefan Pfänder
[N[N]] compounds in Russian
Modern Russian contains a significant number of right-headed compounds modeled on Germanic [N[N]] compounds and containing recently borrowed English or German stems. The present article argues that these compounds are a family of partially lexically-specific constructions. Quantitative corpus data from the restricted semantic domain consisting of names of food/drink establishments support this claim by showing that the [N[N]] structure is specifi…
Conspiring to Mean
This article reports on an experiment with miniature artificial languages that provides support for a synthesis of ideas from USAGE-BASED PHONOLOGY (Bybee 1985, 2001, Nesset 2008) and HARMONIC GRAMMAR (Legendre et al. 1990, Smolensky & Legendre 2006). All miniature artificial languages presented to subjects feature velar palatalization ( k → ts ) before a plural suffix, - i . I show that (i) examples of - i simply attaching to a [ts]-final stem h…
The apprehensive
Frequency of Use Leads to Automaticity of Production
In spontaneous speech, speakers sometimes replace a word they have just produced or started producing by another word. The present study reports that in these replacement repairs, low-frequency replaced words are more likely to be interrupted prior to completion than high-frequency words, providing support to the hypothesis that the production of high-frequency words is more automatic than the production of low-frequency words (Bybee, 2002; Logan…
Adversative conjunction choice in Russian ( no , da , odnako )
This article presents a multivariate analysis of adversative conjunction choice (among no , da , and odnako ) in Russian, drawing implications for sentence production and semantic theory. The two main factors shown to influence conjunction choice are the types of the conjoined constituents and the semantic subtype of the adversative relation. One of the conjunctions, da , is favored when the conjoined elements are of different syntactic types and…
Testing Theories of Linguistic Constituency with Configural Learning
This article proposes and tests an experimental method to assess the psychological reality of hierarchical theories of constituent structure in particular domains. I show that a hierarchical theory of constituent structure necessarily makes the prediction that an association between constituents should be easier to learn than an association between strings that cross constituent boundaries, whereas dependency-based theories of constituency predic…
To scheme or to rule
Measuring the Relationship of Structure to Use
The apprehensive
Conspiring to Mean
This article reports on an experiment with miniature artificial languages that provides support for a synthesis of ideas from USAGE-BASED PHONOLOGY (Bybee 1985, 2001, Nesset 2008) and HARMONIC GRAMMAR (Legendre et al. 1990, Smolensky & Legendre 2006). All miniature artificial languages presented to subjects feature velar palatalization ( k → ts ) before a plural suffix, - i . I show that (i) examples of - i simply attaching to a [ts]-final stem h…
Frequency of Use Leads to Automaticity of Production
In spontaneous speech, speakers sometimes replace a word they have just produced or started producing by another word. The present study reports that in these replacement repairs, low-frequency replaced words are more likely to be interrupted prior to completion than high-frequency words, providing support to the hypothesis that the production of high-frequency words is more automatic than the production of low-frequency words (Bybee, 2002; Logan…
Syntagmatic paradigms
Adversative conjunction choice in Russian ( no , da , odnako )
This article presents a multivariate analysis of adversative conjunction choice (among no , da , and odnako ) in Russian, drawing implications for sentence production and semantic theory. The two main factors shown to influence conjunction choice are the types of the conjoined constituents and the semantic subtype of the adversative relation. One of the conjunctions, da , is favored when the conjoined elements are of different syntactic types and…
Measuring the Relationship of Structure to Use
To scheme or to rule
Adversative conjunction choice in Russian ( no , da , odnako )
This article presents a multivariate analysis of adversative conjunction choice (among no , da , and odnako ) in Russian, drawing implications for sentence production and semantic theory. The two main factors shown to influence conjunction choice are the types of the conjoined constituents and the semantic subtype of the adversative relation. One of the conjunctions, da , is favored when the conjoined elements are of different syntactic types and…
Testing Theories of Linguistic Constituency with Configural Learning
This article proposes and tests an experimental method to assess the psychological reality of hierarchical theories of constituent structure in particular domains. I show that a hierarchical theory of constituent structure necessarily makes the prediction that an association between constituents should be easier to learn than an association between strings that cross constituent boundaries, whereas dependency-based theories of constituency predic…
Frequency of Use Leads to Automaticity of Production
In spontaneous speech, speakers sometimes replace a word they have just produced or started producing by another word. The present study reports that in these replacement repairs, low-frequency replaced words are more likely to be interrupted prior to completion than high-frequency words, providing support to the hypothesis that the production of high-frequency words is more automatic than the production of low-frequency words (Bybee, 2002; Logan…
The apprehensive
[N[N]] compounds in Russian
Modern Russian contains a significant number of right-headed compounds modeled on Germanic [N[N]] compounds and containing recently borrowed English or German stems. The present article argues that these compounds are a family of partially lexically-specific constructions. Quantitative corpus data from the restricted semantic domain consisting of names of food/drink establishments support this claim by showing that the [N[N]] structure is specifi…
Conspiring to Mean
This article reports on an experiment with miniature artificial languages that provides support for a synthesis of ideas from USAGE-BASED PHONOLOGY (Bybee 1985, 2001, Nesset 2008) and HARMONIC GRAMMAR (Legendre et al. 1990, Smolensky & Legendre 2006). All miniature artificial languages presented to subjects feature velar palatalization ( k → ts ) before a plural suffix, - i . I show that (i) examples of - i simply attaching to a [ts]-final stem h…
Heike Behrens and Stefan Pfänder
Changing Minds Changing Tools
Language acquisition has often been approached as an isolated domain subject to its own laws and driven by its own mechanisms. The working hypothesis of this book is that language acquisition is simply learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains, and well-described by models of associative learning. ‘Changing minds changing tools’ connects findings in language acquisition to comparable findings elsewhere, including research on…
Distributional learning is error-driven
Much previous research on distributional learning and phonetic categorization assumes that categories are either faithful reproductions or parametric summaries of experienced frequency distributions, acquired through a Hebbian learning process in which every experience contributes equally to the category representation. We suggest that category representations may instead be formed via error-driven predictive learning. Rather than passively stori…
On the intolerance of the Tolerance Principle
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The metrical parse is guided by gradient phonotactics
Phonotactic generalisations can be computed at different levels of granularity, from a coarse-grained legal/illegal dichotomy ( blick , dwick ≻ * bnick , * lbick ) to a fine-grained gradient of acceptability ( blick ≻ dwick ≻ bnick ≻ lbick ). This article investigates the sensitivity of the English metrical parse to the granularity of medial onset phonotactics. We present two experiments that feature pseudo-words with medial consonants and CC clu…
Changing Minds Changing Tools
Lay Listener Classification and Evaluation of Typical and Atypical Children’s Speech
Verbal children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often also have atypical speech. In the context of the many challenges associated with ASD, do speech sound pattern differences really matter? The current study addressed this question. Structured spontaneous speech was elicited from 34 children: 17 with ASD, whose clinicians reported unusual speech prosody; and 17 typically-developing, age-matched controls. Multiword utterances were excerpted f…
What Are Constructions, and What Else Is Out There? An Associationist Perspective
Constructionist approaches to language propose that the language system is a network of constructions, defined as bidirectional mappings between a complex form and a meaning. This paper critically evaluates the evidence for and against two possible construals of this proposal as a psycholinguistic theory: that direct, bidirectional form-meaning associations play a central role in language comprehension and production, and the stronger claim that …
Syntagmatic paradigms
What do you learn from a single cue? Dimensional reweighting and cue reassociation from experience with a newly unreliable phonetic cue
In language comprehension, we use perceptual cues to infer meanings. Some of these cues reside on perceptual dimensions. For example, the difference between bear and pear is cued by a difference in voice onset time (VOT), which is a continuous perceptual dimension. The present paper asks whether, and when, experience with a single value on a dimension behaving unexpectedly is used by the learner to reweight the whole dimension. We show that learn…
Language attitudes and identity in second dialect acquisition
This study investigates to what extent various factors affect the stop production of North Korean refugee speakers living in Seoul, South Korea, from the perspective of second dialect acquisition (SDA). The VOT and F0 values of 6,495 stops were measured from twenty-two North Korean speakers (F: 16, M: 6). The factors examined were age of arrival, length of residence (LoR), and three different aspects of social adaptation (identification, assimila…
Implications of learning models for linguistic theory
This paper introduces the special issue on implications of learning models, such as deep neural networks and instance-based models, for linguistic theory. This special issue aims to address the core question of linguistic theory – what makes human languages the way they are – by comparing models of language learning (i.e., different theories of the language acquisition device). We bring the papers together by discussing a number of recurrent them…
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