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Record W3183196345 · doi:10.1075/silv.26.13hud

Adult learners’ (non-) acquisition of speaker-specific variation

2021· book-chapter· en· W3183196345 on OpenAlexaff
Carla L. Hudson Kam

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in language variation · 2021
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVariation (astronomy)PsychologyComputer scienceLinguisticsSpeech recognitionPhysicsAstrophysicsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract This study is concerned with understanding how learners acquire sociolinguistic variation. It examines the possibility that learners gain entry into socially-conditioned variation by first associating patterns with particular speakers. Adult participants were exposed to a miniature artificial language spoken by two different speakers, each exhibiting a different variable pattern of determiner usage. After exposure, participants were tested to see if they had acquired the speaker-specific patterns using production and judgment measures. The data show no evidence that participants had learned the speaker-specific patterns. How then do learners acquire sociolinguistic variation? I suggest that learners need a more socially relevant variable to index variation to, that is, that sociolinguistic variation really is social at its core.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.313 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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