Danielle Naegeli & Rachel Kindellan, CLE, University of Edinburgh<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday, 12.05.2020 Previous research has demonstrated that the typologically attested preference for word order harmony, consistent order of dependents relative to their head, is reflected in individual learning behaviour in artificial language learning. To address the hypothesis that the word order harmony bias is driven by a more general bias for simplicity, we compared the strength of the word order harmony bias in one- and two-modifier contexts. It was predicted that the harmony bias would be stronger in the one-modifier conditions than in their two-modifier counterparts given that in one-modifier conditions the harmonic grammar is simpler than non-harmonic grammar, whereas in two-modifier phrases they are equally simple. Participants did not exhibit a harmony bias in any condition based on proportion of majority order production in the one-modifier nor in the two modifier contexts. Shannon entropy was used to measure the variation the output languages. This analysis revealed that there was no significant effect of the interaction between number of modifiers and harmony on regularisation. These unexpected findings prompt further exploration of the word order harmony bias; contexts in which it is active, other linguistic factors that influence it, and alternative paradigms to use in its investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Role of Simplicity in the Word Order Harmony Bias Danielle Naegeli & Rachel Kindellan, CLE, University of Edinburgh Tuesday, 12.05.2020 11:00 – 11:40 Room: [virtual Zoom talk] Previous research has demonstrated that the typologically attested preference for word order harmony, consistent order of dependents relative to their head, is reflected in individual learning behaviour … Continue reading May 12: Danielle Naegeli & Rachel Kindellan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRoom: [virtual Zoom talk]<\/p>\n