Words, rules, and mechanisms of language acquisition

AD Endress, LL Bonatti - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We review recent artificial language learning studies, especially those following Endress
and Bonatti (Endress AD, Bonatti LL. Rapid learning of syllable classes from a perceptually …

[CARTE][B] Language down the garden path: The cognitive and biological basis for linguistic structures

M Sanz, I Laka, MK Tanenhaus - 2013 - books.google.com
Thomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in
his 1970 paper" The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This' garden path sentence' …

Responses to vocalizations and auditory controls in the human newborn brain

A Cristia, Y Minagawa, E Dupoux - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
In the adult brain, speech can recruit a brain network that is overlap** with, but not
identical to, that involved in perceiving non-linguistic vocalizations. Using the same stimuli …

[PDF][PDF] 19 Mechanisms of Language Acquisition: Imaging and Behavioral Evidence

J Mehler, M Nespor, J Gervain, A Endress… - Handbook of …, 2008 - academia.edu
The attempt to explain the uniqueness of language is as old as our own cultural memory.
Among the great linguists, Panini investigated the structure of Sanskrit nearly 2500 years …

[PDF][PDF] Domain specificity and statistical computations in segmenting fluent speech

M Shukla - UBCWPL, 2009 - lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca
In a certain sense, the term 'domain general'is not much different from the term 'domain
specific'. Consider what it might mean for a computation to be domain general. Let us take a …