Communicative Feedback in language acquisition

Nikolaus, Mitja; Fourtassi, Abdellah

doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2022.100985

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“…This process occurs unconsciously just as someone acquires their first language (Krashen, 1989) or consciously only by focusing on linguistic input (Arung, 2016). In addition, such language attitudes are also basically driven by special communication needs in work activities which according to Nikolaus and Fourtassi (2023) can be understood as communicative feedback in the process of language acquisition through social interaction. That is why there is a difference in language attitudes between indigenous workers who have worked for a long time in Chinese foreign companies that have been operating for a long time and those who have not.…”

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A Mutual Language Policy: Facilitating Shared Interests between Foreign and Indigenous Workers Regarding Language, Socio-culture, Ideology and Identity

Murtadho

2024

gramatika

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We propose a Mutual Language Policy to mediate shared interests between Chinese and indigenous workers in minimalizing frictions related to language attitudes, socio-cultural attitudes, ideologies and identities. So far, language policy has only sided with indigenous interests initiated by the government and has not involved foreign interests. By using multiple case study, we analyzed language attitudes, socio-cultural attitudes, as well as ideologies and identities of Chinese and indigenous workers to understand the frictions that occurred. We found that the language attitude of the Chinese workers was considered positive while the dominant use of Mandarin was only caused by the lack of mastery of both Indonesian and English. Next, the socio-cultural attitude of Chinese workers that seemed exclusive was basically caused by two main things, firstly, their concern about counterculture and contra behavior towards indigenous people. Secondly, the social class in employment context. Finally, the defense of the ideology and identity of the indigenous community seemed so strong was because of the collective defense system. Shared interests among them in a mutual language policy concept are also discussed.

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A Mutual Language Policy: Facilitating Shared Interests between Foreign and Indigenous Workers Regarding Language, Socio-culture, Ideology and Identity

Murtadho

2024

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“…Such an endeavor will eventually allow us to answer crucial, lingering scientific questions about the universals of human linguistic coordination development and their culture-specific instantiation. The fruit of this effort will be highly impactful to many other domains of cognitive development, the most direct being language learning [7,27,26] but also the acquisition of new knowledge more generally [9,4,14]. Further, adopting Machine Learning tools to model child coordination would help translate our accumulated scientific understanding relatively easily into improvement in child-oriented AI [19,33], thus bridging theory and practice.…”

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Understanding Children's Multimodal Conversational Development: Challenges and Opportunities

Fourtassi¹

2023

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Children's ability to master skills for coordinated conversations is crucial for their healthy social and cognitive development. However, until recently, researchers lacked the tools to adequately characterize this complex phenomenon whereby children must learn to coordinate across multiple levels, use multimodal signaling, and adapt to their communicative cultural conventions and the diversity of conversational contexts. This paper proposes that the community capitalize on new technological opportunities — namely, unmoderated online data acquisition methods and high-scalability Machine Learning tools — to build a quantitative framework that will not only provide a deeper understanding of how children grow to become competent communicators but also constitute a theoretical foundation for applications in health, education, and child-oriented AI.

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“…Our models can be used to obtain a general measure of the grammaticality of utterances as well as for calculating the overall grammatical competence of a child. They can also be used as a starting point to investigate various mechanisms of language learning, such as corrective feedback (Brown and Hanlon, 1970) and communicative feedback (Nikolaus and Fourtassi, 2023).…”

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Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations

Nikolaus,

Agrawal,

Kaklamanis

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The acquisition of grammar has been a central question to adjudicate between theories of language acquisition. In order to conduct faster, more reproducible, and larger-scale corpus studies on grammaticality in child-caregiver conversations, tools for automatic annotation can offer an effective alternative to tedious manual annotation. We propose a coding scheme for context-dependent grammaticality in child-caregiver conversations and annotate more than 4,000 utterances from a large corpus of transcribed conversations. Based on these annotations, we train and evaluate a range of NLP models. Our results show that fine-tuned Transformer-based models perform best, achieving human inter-annotation agreement levels. As a first application and sanity check of this tool, we use the trained models to annotate a corpus that is almost two orders of magnitude larger than the manually annotated data and verify that children's grammaticality shows a steady increase with age. This work contributes to the growing literature on applying state-of-the-art NLP methods to help study child language acquisition at scale.

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Communicative Feedback in language acquisition

Cited by 11 publications

References 132 publications

A Mutual Language Policy: Facilitating Shared Interests between Foreign and Indigenous Workers Regarding Language, Socio-culture, Ideology and Identity

A Mutual Language Policy: Facilitating Shared Interests between Foreign and Indigenous Workers Regarding Language, Socio-culture, Ideology and Identity

Understanding Children's Multimodal Conversational Development: Challenges and Opportunities

Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations

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