Rule Learning in Humans and Animals

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Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • E.A. Cartmill
  • S. Roberts
  • H. Lyn
  • H. Cornish
Book title The Evolution of Language
Book subtitle proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 14-17 April 2014
ISBN
  • 9789814603621
Event Evolang10
Pages (from-to) 371-372
Publisher London: World Scientific
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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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