The emergence of duality of patterning through iterated learning: Precursors to phonology in a visual lexicon [0.03%]
通过反复学习产生模式二元性的涌现:视觉词汇中音系的前兆
Alex Del Giudice
Alex Del Giudice
Duality of Patterning, one of Hockett's (1960) proposed design features unique to human language, refers in part to the arrangements of a relatively small stock of distinguishable meaningless sounds which are combined to create a potentiall...
Gail McKoon,Jessica Love
Gail McKoon
Adult speakers use verbs in syntactically appropriate ways. For example, they know implicitly that the boy hit at the fence is acceptable but the boy broke at the fence is not. We suggest that this knowledge is lexically encoded in semantic...
Correlation versus prediction in children's word learning: Cross-linguistic evidence and simulations [0.03%]
基于跨语言证据和模拟的儿童词汇学习中的关联与预测的关系
Eliana Colunga,Linda B Smith,Michael Gasser
Eliana Colunga
The ontological distinction between discrete individuated objects and continuous substances, and the way this distinction is expressed in different languages has been a fertile area for examining the relation between language and thought. I...
Disembodying cognition [0.03%]
脱离身体的认知
Anjan Chatterjee
Anjan Chatterjee
The idea that concepts are embodied by our motor and sensory systems is popular in current theorizing about cognition. Embodied cognition accounts come in different versions and are often contrasted with a purely symbolic amodal view of cog...
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Speakers move their hands when they talk--they gesture. These gestures can signal whether the speaker is ready to learn a particular task and, in this sense, provide a window onto the speaker's knowledge. But gesture can do more than reflec...