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Morten H. Christiansen
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 264
Citations - 14735
Morten H. Christiansen is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Language acquisition & Natural language. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 250 publications receiving 13108 citations. Previous affiliations of Morten H. Christiansen include University of Edinburgh & Australian National University.
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Language as shaped by the brain
TL;DR: This work concludes that a biologically determined UG is not evolutionarily viable, and suggests that apparently arbitrary aspects of linguistic structure may result from general learning and processing biases deriving from the structure of thought processes, perceptuo-motor factors, cognitive limitations, and pragmatics.
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Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper
Clay Beckner,Richard A. Blythe,Joan L. Bybee,Morten H. Christiansen,William Croft,Nick C. Ellis,John H. Holland,Jinyun Ke,Diane Larsen-Freeman,Tom Schoenemann +9 more
TL;DR: The Language as a Complex Adaptive System (LAS) approach as discussed by the authors is a model for language acquisition that is based on a complex adaptive system consisting of multiple agents (the speakers in the speech community) interacting with one another.
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Reassessing Working Memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996)
TL;DR: The authors argued that individual differences in language comprehension do not stem from variations in a separate working memory capacity; instead they emerge from an interaction of biological factors and language experience, and provided an alternative account motivated by a connectionist approach to language comprehension.
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Modality-constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and auditory sequences.
TL;DR: The authors found that the auditory modality displayed a quantitative learning advantage compared with vision and touch, and discovered qualitative learning biases among the senses: Primarily, audition afforded better learning for the final part of input sequences.
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The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.
TL;DR: It is argued that, to deal with this “Now-or-Never” bottleneck, the brain must compress and recode linguistic input as rapidly as possible, which implies that language acquisition is learning to process, rather than inducing, a grammar.