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

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.

Keywords

• concept formation
• cognitive model
• information
• entropy
• fibonacci sequence