Rule Learning in Humans and Animals
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| Publication date | 2014 |
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| Book title | The Evolution of Language |
| Book subtitle | proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 14-17 April 2014 |
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| Event | Evolang10 |
| Pages (from-to) | 371-372 |
| Publisher | London: World Scientific |
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| Abstract | 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 |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814603638_0049 |
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