Abstract
Language Learning Research at the Intersection of Experimental, Computational, and Corpus‐Based Approaches
Highlights
Language acquisition occupies a central place in the study of human cognition, and research on how we learn language can be found across many disciplines, from developmental psychology and linguistics to education, philosophy, and neuroscience
Individual differences are well studied for second language acquisition, where it is clear that factors such as native language, type of instruction, and motivation affect learning rate and ultimate attainment (Ushioda & Dornyei, 2012; Williams, 2012)
To develop an understanding of language acquisition, we need to take into account these individual differences (MacWhinney, 2017)
Summary
Language acquisition occupies a central place in the study of human cognition, and research on how we learn language can be found across many disciplines, from developmental psychology and linguistics to education, philosophy, and neuroscience. Another impressive example of multimethod research is Ellis et al (2016), who investigate the acquisition, processing, and use of verb-argument constructions (VACs), and their monograph contains a series of behavioral experiments, largescale corpus analyses supported by natural language processing (NLP) techniques, and several computational simulations (connectionist and agent based).
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