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All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year Sort by creator [A → Z]' creator [Z → A]' publishing year ↑ (asc)' publishing year ↓ (desc)' title [A → Z]' title [Z → A]' Simple Search Page: 1 2 3 4 5 Hits 1 – 20 of 82 1 Dynamic inference and everyday conditional reasoning in the new paradigm Oaksford, Mike; Chater, N.. - : Psychology Press, 2016 BASE Show details 2 Probabilistic single function dual process theory and logic programming as approaches to non-monotonicity in human vs. artificial reasoning Oaksford, Mike; Chater, N.. - : Taylor and Francis, 2014 BASE Show details 3 Normative systems: logic, probability, and rational choice Chater, N.; Oaksford, Mike. - : Oxford University Press, 2012 BASE Show details 4 The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity Chater, N.; Pastor-Satorras, R.; Baronchelli, A.. - 2012 BASE Show details 5 The mental representation of causal conditional reasoning: mental models or causal models Nilufa, A.; Chater, N.; Oaksford, Mike. - : Elsevier, 2011 BASE Show details 6 The probabilistic analysis of language acquisition: Theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis Vitanyi, PMB; Hsu, AS; Chater, N In: COGNITION , 120 (3) 380 - 390. (2011) (2011) BASE Show details 7 The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective Chater, N; Hsu, AS In: COGNITIVE SCI , 34 (6) 972 - 1016. (2010) (2010) BASE Show details 8 Probabilistic language acquisition: Theoretical, Computational and Experimental analysis. Hsu, AS; Chater, N In: In: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (2010) (2010) BASE Show details 9 The biological and cultural foundations of language. Reali, F; Christiansen, MH; Chater, N In: Commun Integr Biol , 2 (3) pp. 221-222. (2009) (2009) BASE Show details 10 Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution Chater, N; Reali, F; Christiansen, MH In: P NATL ACAD SCI USA , 106 (4) 1015 - 1020. (2009) (2009) BASE Show details 11 Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution Chater, N.; Reali, F.; Christiansen, M.H. In: (ELSE Working Papers 329). ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution: London, UK. (2009) (2009) BASE Show details 12 Serial and free recall: Common effects and common mechanisms? A reply to Murdock (2008) Brown, GDA; Neath, I; Chater, N In: PSYCHOL REV , 115 (3) 781 - 785. (2008) (2008) BASE Show details 13 Using statistical smoothing to estimate the psycholinguistic acceptability of novel phrases Roberrs, MAJ; Chater, N In: BEHAV RES METHODS , 40 (1) 84 - 93. (2008) (2008) BASE Show details 14 Language as shaped by the brain Christiansen, MH; Chater, N In: BEHAV BRAIN SCI , 31 (5) 489 - 509. (2008) (2008) Abstract: It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language-specific biological endowment, which encodes universal, but communicatively arbitrary, principles of language structure (a Universal Grammar or UG). How might such a UG have evolved? We argue that UG could not have arisen either by biological adaptation or non-adaptationist genetic processes, resulting in a logical problem of language evolution. Specifically, as the processes of language change are much more rapid than processes of genetic change, language constitutes a "moving target" both over time and across different human populations, and hence, cannot provide a stable environment to which language genes could have adapted. We conclude that a biologically determined UG is not evolutionarily viable. Instead, the original motivation for UG - the mesh between learners and languages - arises because language has been shaped to fit the human brain, rather than vice versa. Following Darwin, we view language itself as a complex and interdependent "organism," which evolves under selectional pressures from human learning and processing mechanisms. That is, languages themselves are shaped by severe selectional pressure from each generation of language users and learners. This suggests that apparently arbitrary aspects of linguistic structure may result from general learning and processing biases deriving from the structure of thought processes, perceptuo-motor factors, cognitive limitations, and pragmatics. Keyword: ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE; biological adaptation; cultural evolution; DARWINS FINCHES; DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES; grammaticalization; language acquisition; language evolution; linguistic change; LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION; natural selection; NATURAL-SELECTION; PHONOLOGICAL MARKERS; PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINTS; SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; Universal Grammar; WORD-ORDER URL: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/168484/1/download10.pdf http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/168484/ BASE Hide details 15 Inference from absence in language and thought Hahn, Ulrike; Oaksford, Mike. - : Oxford University Press, 2008 BASE Show details 16 Two views of simplicity in linguistic theory: Which connects better with cognitive science? Chater, N; Christiansen, M In: Trends in Cognitive Science , 8 pp. 324-326. (2007) (2007) BASE Show details 17 A temporal ratio model of memory Brown, GDA; Neath, I; Chater, N In: PSYCHOL REV , 114 (3) 539 - 576. (2007) (2007) BASE Show details 18 The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition Monaghan, P; Christiansen, MH; Chater, N In: COGNITIVE PSYCHOL , 55 (4) 259 - 305. (2007) (2007) BASE Show details 19 'Ideal learning' of natural language: Positive results about learning from positive evidence Chater, N; Vitanyi, P In: J MATH PSYCHOL , 51 (3) 135 - 163. (2007) (2007) BASE Show details 20 Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition Chater, N; Manning, CD In: TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES , 10 (7) 335 - 344. (2006) (2006) BASE Show details Page: 1 2 3 4 5

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