Information-Processing Model of Concept Formation – Is First Language Acquisition Universal?

Velina Slavova

doi:10.2478/cait-2018-0035

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Information-Processing Model of Concept Formation – Is First Language Acquisition Universal?

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

Volume 18 (2018): Issue 3 (September 2018)

By: Velina Slavova

Open Access

|Sep 2018

Abstract

The analysis of child’s speech corpora shows that the process of acquisition of English and French displays identical development of children’s expressions when the speech-utterances are presented as Fibonacci-weighted classes of concepts. A model of concept complexity and information processing based on principles of optimality is proposed to explain this statistical result.

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