Systematic map**s of sound to meaning: A theoretical review

DA Haslett, ZG Cai - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
The form of a word sometimes conveys semantic information. For example, the iconic word
gurgle sounds like what it means, and busy is easy to identify as an English adjective …

Does nonlinguistic segmentation predict literacy in second language education? Statistical learning in Ivorian primary schools

BD Zinszer, J Hannon, AÉ Kouadio, H Akpé… - Language …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical learning is a learning mechanism that does not directly depend on knowledge of a
language but predicts language and literacy outcomes for children and adults. Research …

Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: From improvised gesture to systematic sign

Y Motamedi, M Schouwstra, K Smith, J Culbertson… - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent work on emerging sign languages provides evidence for how key properties of
linguistic systems are created. Here we use laboratory experiments to investigate the …

Redundancy can benefit learning: Evidence from word order and case marking

S Tal, I Arnon - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
The prevalence of redundancy in the world languages has long puzzled language
researchers. It is especially surprising in light of the growing evidence on speakers' …

On the interaction between supervision and self-play in emergent communication

R Lowe, A Gupta, J Foerster, D Kiela… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
A promising approach for teaching artificial agents to use natural language involves using
human-in-the-loop training. However, recent work suggests that current machine learning …

Compositional structure can emerge without generational transmission

L Raviv, A Meyer, S Lev-Ari - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Experimental work in the field of language evolution has shown that novel signal systems
become more structured over time. In a recent paper, Kirby, Tamariz, Cornish, and Smith …

Experimental Semiotics: past, present, and future

J Nölle, B Galantucci - The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Experimental semiotics (ES) investigates how novel semiotic systems emerge by observing
people ground communication in lab games, thus exposing the fundamental principles of …

Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality

M Bohn, G Kachel, M Tomasello - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
How the world's 6,000+ natural languages have arisen is mostly unknown. Yet, new sign
languages have emerged recently among deaf people brought together in a community …

[HTML][HTML] What makes a language easy to learn? A preregistered study on how systematic structure and community size affect language learnability

L Raviv, M de Heer Kloots, A Meyer - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Cross-linguistic differences in morphological complexity could have important
consequences for language learning. Specifically, it is often assumed that languages with …

How language learning and language use create linguistic structure

K Smith - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Languages persist through a cycle of learning and use: You learn a language through
immersion in the language used in your linguistic community, and in using language to …