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The Evolution of Language

592pp    May 2014

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The Evolution of Language

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference

EVOLANG 10
Vienna, Austria, 14 – 17 April 2014

Edited by: Erica A Cartmill (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Seán Roberts (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands), Heidi Lyn (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA), Hannah Cornish (University of Stirling, UK)

RAQUEL G. ALHAMA, REMKO SCHA, and WILLEM ZUIDEMA (2014) RULE LEARNING IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS. The Evolution of Language: pp. 371-372.
doi: 10.1142/9789814603638_0049

Abstracts

RULE LEARNING IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS

RAQUEL G. ALHAMA1 REMKO SCHA1 WILLEM ZUIDEMA1
1Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 107, Amsterdam, 1098XG, The Netherlands

In recent years, artificial language learning experiments have revealed a rich and complex picture of the abilities of different species and different human age groups to discover simple patterns in sequences. In one influential study, Aslin et al. (1998) show that human infants use transitional probabilities (TP's), and not just co-occurrence frequencies, between adjacent syllables in a monotonous stream of speech to segment it into word-like units…