Modeling common ground

Projekt: Forschung

Projektbeteiligte

Beschreibung

Language is inherently ambiguous. The meaning of words and sentences depends on the identity of the communicative partners and the nature of the context. In simple behavioral experiments children and adults can use a wide variety of social-contextual cues (jointly known as “common ground”) to interpret ambiguous utterances. But this limited empirical evidence – especially in the developmental context – does not live up to the theoretical importance of common ground: In theory, common ground is not only involved in online language use but it is also a necessary prerequisite to learn language in the first place. Studying the development of children’s ability to form and use common ground is therefore crucial to understand the psychological foundation of language. It is still unknown how both adults and children integrate different social-contextual cues in complex, naturalistic interactions. Bayesian modeling provides a mathematical framework for formalizing theoretical assumptions about this interaction and deriving quantitative predictions about new experimental situations.
This project will unite developmental and computational approaches. The key objective is to find out what constitutes common ground at different ages and how it informs language learning across development. I will develop mathematical models and behavioral experiments in parallel to obtain quantitative predictions for different forms of interactions between social-contextual cues. By comparing these predictions to data from early children’s word learning at different stages of development, I will be able to empirically evaluate the theoretical importance of the different components of common ground. The interdisciplinary focus of the project at the intersection of psychology, linguistics and computer science will open up new avenues for the empirical study of language use and language learning.

Funded by the European Commission CORDIS Horizon 2020 EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
DOI: 10.3030/749229
StatusAbgeschlossen
Zeitraum11.09.1710.09.20

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Publikationen

  1. The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo.
  2. Towards a spatial understanding of identity play
  3. Empowering materials processing and performance from data and AI
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  5. Explaining and controlling for the psychometric properties of computer-generated figural matrix items
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  11. How Much Home Office is Ideal? A Multi-Perspective Algorithm
  12. Dimension estimates for certain sets of infinite complex continued fractions
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