Artificial analogues of natural‐language phonological patterns can often be learned in the
lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurally‐defined pattern …

Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

We investigate whether the patterns of phonotactic well-formedness internalized by
language learners are direct reflections of the phonological patterns they encounter, or …

Artificial analogues of natural‐language phonological patterns can often be learned in the
lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurally‐defined pattern …

Listeners of various languages tend to perceive an illusory vowel inside consonant clusters
that are illegal in their native language. Here, we test whether this phenomenon arises after …

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 …

Previous studies have shown that listeners have difficulty discriminating between non-native
CC sequences and licit alternatives (eg Japanese [ebzo]-[ebuzo], English [bnif] …

The idea of a biologically evolved, universal grammar with linguistic content is a myth,
perpetuated by three spurious explanatory strategies of generative linguists. To make …

Speakers learn detailed generalizations about the morphophonology of their language and
extend them to nonce words. We propose a theory of this morphophonological knowledge …