Information-Processing Model of Concept Formation – Is First Language Acquisition Universal?
| Sep 19, 2018
Published Online: Sep 19, 2018
Page range: 3 - 22
Received: Jan 14, 2018
Accepted: Jun 25, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2018-0035
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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.