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To convey meaning, human language relies on hierarchically organized, long-range relationships spanning words, phrases, sentences and discourse. As the distances between elements (e.g. phonemes, characters, words) in human language sequences increase, the strength of the long-range relationships between those elements decays following a power law. This power-law relationship has been attributed variously to long-range sequential organization present in human language syntax, semantics and discourse structure. However, non-linguistic behaviours in numerous phylogenetically distant species, ranging from humpback whale song to fruit fly motility, also demonstrate similar long-range statistical dependencies. Therefore, we hypothesized that long-range statistical dependencies in human speech may occur independently of linguistic structure. To test this hypothesis, we measured long-range dependencies in several speech corpora from children (aged 6 months–12 years). We find that adult-like power-law statistical ...
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170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified; 60801 Animal Behaviour; Developmental Biology; FOS Biological sciences; FOS Psychology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5862335 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Long-range_sequential_dependencies_precede_complex_syntactic_production_in_language_acquisition_/5862335
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