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"text": "Word order constraints in languages may favor regularities in either the forward direction (when words are predictable from their earlier context) or in the backward direction, (when words are more predictable from the context occurring after them). For instance, languages differ in whether they use prepositions (e.g. 'in Paris') or postpositions (e.g. 'Paris in'). The conditional probability of observing 'in' given 'Paris' is higher than that of observing 'Paris' given 'in' (since 'in' may be preceded or followed by any location name); thus, the construction with a postposition has higher forward predictability, while the construction with a preposition is more predictable in the backward direction.",
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"text": "Few studies focus on the role of backward dependencies in human processing and learning. Pelucchi et al. (2009a) found that 8-month-old infants can learn the words of an artificial language which can only be identified based on conditional probabilities in the backward direction. The experiments reported in Perruchet and Desaulty (2008) demonstrate that this ability is also present in adults. Another set of studies revealed that the word order patterns in the native language of speakers create learning biases that manifest when learning an artificial language. Using a carefully controlled artificial language that contained balanced cues in the forward and backward direction, Onnis and Thiessen (2013) found a significant difference between Korean and English speakers, manifested in a tendency to rely on dependencies that are consistent with the direction that best predicts constituency in those languages (forward for Korean and backward for English). 13 month-old children learning English also exhibit this bias (Thiessen et al., 2019) .",
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"text": "We selected all the adjective-noun pairs (for both languages), and noun-adjective pairs (for Italian only). We downsampled the adjective-noun pairs in English to be comparable in size to the Italian data. For each word pair w 1 w 2 we computed its conditional probability as P (w i |w j ) = counts(w 1 w 2 )/counts(ctx), where i = 2, j = 1, ctx = w 1 for forward conditional probabilities and i = 1, j = 2, ctx = w 2 for backward conditional probabilities. Figure 1 shows the distribution of the computed probabilities. Whereas forward conditional probabilities are significantly more reliable for adjectives occurring in the Italian canonical noun-adjective ordering (p < 0.01), the opposite is the case for English, in which predicting backwards is significantly more reliable (p < 0.001). In the case of the adjective-noun order in Italian, both forward and backward probabilities are equally informative. This is consistent with the highly formulaic nature of this syntactic pattern, since not all adjectives and nouns occur in this construction. To summarize, as expected, word order is reflected in the conditional probabilities between adjectives and nouns, at least in the canonical order: while noun-adjective in Italian is favoured by forward probabilities, adjective-noun in English is better predicted backwards. ",
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"text": "As can be seen, at the end of training, the RNN is significantly less successful in learning English than Italian (where success is quantified by low entropy). These results are consistent with our expectation: the model performs significantly worse for English, which -as shown in our analyses of conditional probabilities (section 3)-is less favoured by forward probabilities in the adjective-noun construction.",
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"text": "We implement a dRNN with the same hyperparameters as the RNN. We set a delay of one word and evaluate the model with the same entropy measure after similar number of epochs as the RNN (60 epochs). Results are shown in Fig. 4 . As can be seen, there are no significant differences between these languages, suggesting that this model can account for learning adjective constructions in both languages. Turek et al. (2019) noted that, for a large enough d, the dRNN can approximate the behavior of a biRNN. Since the biRNN explicitly processes the context after a word in the backward direction, similar performance provides further indication that the dRNN is learning backward dependencies. We thus replicate our simulations with a biRNN. This is in line with the reported data, and offers an explanation to why the AoA of children does not show any differences despite the different word order patterns: while a classic RNN account shows an asymmetry depending on the directions of predictability, by delaying the prediction error update, the dRNN can take advantage of the backward dependencies in English, and strikes a good balance between the two directions in Italian.",
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"text": "Corpus AnalysisFirst we confirmed that the adjective order in English and Italian was reflected in the condi-tional probabilities between adjectives and nouns. We extracted child-directed speech transcriptions from all the English and Italian corpora available in CHILDES(MacWhinney, 2000), using the childesr library (Sanchez et al., 2019) 1 . We focused on ages from 0 to 60 months old, and used the lemmatized, lowercased version of the words. Since part-of-speech information was not available for all the data, we used the part-of-speech tagger in spaCy 2 to annotate it. We applied additional manual revision to remove some words that were wrongly classified as descriptive adjectives 3 . We used the lemmatized version of the words since, unlike in English, nouns and adjectives have number and grammatical gender in Italian.",
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"text": "We are grateful to Evan Kidd for discussions and feedback on earlier versions of this paper. The authors also thank the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) for supporting Francesca Zermiani.",
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