Spoken language achieves robustness and evolvability by exploiting degeneracy and neutrality
B Winter - BioEssays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As with biological systems, spoken languages are strikingly robust against perturbations.
This paper shows that languages achieve robustness in a way that is highly similar to many …
This paper shows that languages achieve robustness in a way that is highly similar to many …
Language universals at birth
The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human
sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the …
sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the …
[HTML][HTML] Infants' develo** sensitivity to native language phonotactics: a meta-analysis
We used Bayesian modeling to aggregate experiments investigating infants' sensitivity to
native language phonotactics. Our findings were based on data from 83 experiments on …
native language phonotactics. Our findings were based on data from 83 experiments on …
Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel: Scaffolding from child-directed speech
In order to acquire their native languages, children must learn richly structured systems with
regularities at multiple levels. While structure at different levels could be learned serially, eg …
regularities at multiple levels. While structure at different levels could be learned serially, eg …
[HTML][HTML] Learning nonadjacent dependencies in phonology: Transparent vowels in vowel harmony
Nonadjacent dependencies are an important part of the structure of language. While the
majority of syntactic and phonological processes occur at a local domain, there are several …
majority of syntactic and phonological processes occur at a local domain, there are several …
Sounding out sonority
This metastudy summarizes 264 recent experimental works involving sonority. The
discussion here centers around an accompanying appendix that lists several details of each …
discussion here centers around an accompanying appendix that lists several details of each …
The role of phonological structure in speech segmentation by infants and adults: a review and methodological considerations
Across languages, phonological words are restricted by constraints on their phonological
structure. As a by-product, word-internal phonological structure creates cues to word …
structure. As a by-product, word-internal phonological structure creates cues to word …
Superior learning in synesthetes: Consistent grapheme-color associations facilitate statistical learning
In synesthesia activation in one sensory domain, such as smell or sound, triggers an
involuntary and unusual secondary sensory or cognitive experience. In the present study …
involuntary and unusual secondary sensory or cognitive experience. In the present study …
A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia
N Maïonchi-Pino, É Runge - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2024 - cambridge.org
How do children with developmental dyslexia process unattested or ill-formed phonological
sequences in their native language? This question warrants attention because these …
sequences in their native language? This question warrants attention because these …
The metrical parse is guided by gradient phonotactics
Phonotactic generalisations can be computed at different levels of granularity, from a coarse-
grained legal/illegal dichotomy (blick, dwick≻* bnick,* lbick) to a fine-grained gradient of …
grained legal/illegal dichotomy (blick, dwick≻* bnick,* lbick) to a fine-grained gradient of …