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One model for the learning of language.
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In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 119, iss 5 (2022)
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One model for the learning of language
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In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2022)
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The Natural Stories corpus: a reading-time corpus of English texts containing rare syntactic constructions
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In: Springer Netherlands (2020)
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Recursive sequence generation in monkeys, children, U.S. adults, and native Amazonians
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In: Sci Adv (2020)
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Post Hoc Analysis Decisions Drive the Reported Reading Time Effects in Hackl, Koster-Hale & Varvoutis (2012)
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In: Other repository (2019)
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Table of assumptions used in our estimates from Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition ...
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Table of assumptions used in our estimates from Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition ...
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Supplementary material from "Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition" ...
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Supplementary material from "Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition" ...
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Word Forms Are Structured for Efficient Use
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2018)
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Color naming across languages reflects color use
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In: National Academy of Sciences (2018)
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Words cluster phonetically beyond phonotactic regularities
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2017)
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Recent evidence suggests that cognitive pressures associated with language acquisition and use could affect the organization of the lexicon. On one hand, consistent with noisy channel models of language (e.g., Levy, 2008), the phonological distance between wordforms should be maximized to avoid perceptual confusability (a pressure for dispersion). On the other hand, a lexicon with high phonological regularity would be simpler to learn, remember and produce (e.g., Monaghan et al., 2011) (a pressure for clumpiness). Here we investigate wordform similarity in the lexicon, using measures of word distance (e.g., phonological neighborhood density) to ask whether there is evidence for dispersion or clumpiness of wordforms in the lexicon. We develop a novel method to compare lexicons to phonotactically-controlled baselines that provide a null hypothesis for how clumpy or sparse wordforms would be as the result of only phonotactics. Results for four languages, Dutch, English, German and French, show that the space of monomorphemic wordforms is clumpier than what would be expected by the best chance model according to a wide variety of measures: minimal pairs, average Levenshtein distance and several network properties. This suggests a fundamental drive for regularity in the lexicon that conflicts with the pressure for words to be as phonologically distinct as possible. Keywords: Linguistics; Lexical design; Communication; Phonotactics
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115884
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Wordform Similarity Increases With Semantic Similarity: An Analysis of 100 Languages
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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A Corpus Investigation of Syntactic Embedding in Piraha
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In: PLoS (2015)
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