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

Velina Slavova
2018 Cybernetics and Information Technologies  
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.
doi:10.2478/cait-2018-0035 fatcat:5p4nzvwtmbcdvbz3arkggwdyfm