A Reappraisal of Dependency Length Minimization as a Linguistic Universal [0.03%]
对作为语言普遍性的依赖长度最小化的重新评估
Himanshu Yadav,Shubham Mittal,Samar Husain
Himanshu Yadav
Dependency length minimization is widely regarded as a cross-linguistic universal reflecting syntactic complexity in natural languages. A typical way to operationalize dependency length in corpus-based studies has been to count the number o...
Rodrigo Dal Ben,Hilary Killam,Sadaf Pour Iliaei et al.
Rodrigo Dal Ben et al.
Bilingualism has been hypothesized to shape cognitive abilities across the lifespan. Here, we examined the replicability of a seminal study that showed monolingual-bilingual differences in infancy (Kovács & Mehler, 2009a) by collecting new...
Intuitive Sociology: Children Recognize Decision-Making Structures and Prefer Groups With Less-Concentrated Power [0.03%]
直觉社会学：儿童能够识别决策结构 并且更喜欢权力不那么集中的群体
Ashley J Thomas,Vivian Mitchell,Emily Sumner et al.
Ashley J Thomas et al.
From an early age, children recognize that people belong to social groups. However, not all groups are structured in the same way. The current study asked whether children recognize and distinguish among different decision-making structures...
More or Less Unnatural: Semantic Similarity Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Unnatural Syncretism in Morphological Paradigms [0.03%]
或多或少的不自然：语义相似性塑造了形态学范式中不自然综合的可学习性和跨语言分布
Carmen Saldana,Borja Herce,Balthasar Bickel
Carmen Saldana
Morphological systems often reuse the same forms in different functions, creating what is known as syncretism. While syncretism varies greatly, certain cross-linguistic tendencies are apparent. Patterns where all syncretic forms share a mor...
Evan Orticio,Louis Martí,Celeste Kidd
Evan Orticio
People rely on social information to inform their beliefs. We ask whether and to what degree the perceived prevalence of a belief influences belief adoption. We present the results of two experiments that show how increases in a person's es...
Nonverbal Action Interpretation Guides Novel Word Disambiguation in 12-Month-Olds [0.03%]
非语言动作解释指导12个月大婴儿新词消歧
Barbara Pomiechowska,Gergely Csibra
Barbara Pomiechowska
Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a matter of debate. Based on findings and theories from the action interpretation literature, we hypothesized that 12-month-olds should distinguish commu...
Fausto Carcassi,Jakub Szymanik
Fausto Carcassi
The language of thought hypothesis and connectionism provide two main accounts of category acquisition in the cognitive sciences. However, it is unclear to what extent their predictions agree. In this article, we tackle this problem by comp...
Emerging Self-Representation Presents a Challenge When Perspectives Conflict [0.03%]
新兴的自我表达方式在视角冲突时带来了挑战
Emanuela Yeung,Dimitrios Askitis,Velisar Manea et al.
Emanuela Yeung et al.
The capacity to take another's perspective appears to be present from early in life, with young infants ostensibly able to predict others' behaviour even when the self and other perspective are at odds. Yet, infants' abilities are difficult...
Seeing the World From Others' Perspective: 14-Month-Olds Show Altercentric Modulation Effects by Others' Beliefs [0.03%]
从他人的角度看待世界：14个月大的婴儿表现出基于他人信念的以他人为中心的调节效果
Dora Kampis,Ágnes Melinda Kovács
Dora Kampis
Humans have a propensity to readily adopt others' perspective, which often influences their behavior even when it seemingly should not. This altercentric influence has been widely studied in adults, yet we lack an understanding of its ontog...
Morpheme Ordering Across Languages Reflects Optimization for Processing Efficiency [0.03%]
跨语言的语素排序反映的是加工效率的优化
Michael Hahn,Rebecca Mathew,Judith Degen
Michael Hahn
The ordering of morphemes in a word displays well-documented regularities across languages. Previous work has explained these in terms of notions such as semantic scope, relevance, and productivity. Here, we test a recently formulated proce...