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  1. A Comparative Perspective on the Role of Acoustic Cues in Detecting Language Structure.Jutta L. Mueller, Carel ten Cate & Juan M. Toro - 2018 - Topics in Cognitive Science 12 (3):859-874.
    Mueller et al. discuss the role of acoustic cues in detecting language structure more generally. Across languages, there are clear links between acoustic cues and syntactic structure. They show that AGL experiments implementing analogous links demonstrate that prosodic cues, as well as various auditory biases, facilitate the learning of structural rules. Some of these biases, e.g. for auditory grouping, are also present in other species.
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  • Language as shaped by the brain.Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5):489-509.
    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 (...)
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  • Infants' sensitivity to vowel harmony and its role in segmenting speech.Toben H. Mintz, Rachel L. Walker, Ashlee Welday & Celeste Kidd - 2018 - Cognition 171 (C):95-107.
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  • Phonological development in relation to native language and literacy: Variations on a theme in six alphabetic orthographies.Lynne G. Duncan, São Luís Castro, Sylvia Defior, Philip Hk Seymour, Sheila Baillie, Jacqueline Leybaert, Philippe Mousty, Nathalie Genard, Menelaos Sarris & Costas D. Porpodas - 2013 - Cognition 127 (3):398-419.
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  • Brains, genes, and language evolution: A new synthesis.Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5):537-558.
    Our target article argued that a genetically specified Universal Grammar (UG), capturing arbitrary properties of languages, is not tenable on evolutionary grounds, and that the close fit between language and language learners arises because language is shaped by the brain, rather than the reverse. Few commentaries defend a genetically specified UG. Some commentators argue that we underestimate the importance of processes of cultural transmission; some propose additional cognitive and brain mechanisms that may constrain language and perhaps differentiate humans from nonhuman (...)
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  • Perceptual intake explains variability in statistical word segmentation.Felix Hao Wang, Meili Luo & Suiping Wang - 2023 - Cognition 241 (C):105612.
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  • Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English.Megha Sundara, Linda Polka & Fred Genesee - 2006 - Cognition 100 (2):369-388.
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  • Exploiting Multiple Sources of Information in Learning an Artificial Language: Human Data and Modeling.Pierre Perruchet & Barbara Tillmann - 2010 - Cognitive Science 34 (2):255-285.
    This study investigates the joint influences of three factors on the discovery of new word‐like units in a continuous artificial speech stream: the statistical structure of the ongoing input, the initial word‐likeness of parts of the speech flow, and the contextual information provided by the earlier emergence of other word‐like units. Results of an experiment conducted with adult participants show that these sources of information have strong and interactive influences on word discovery. The authors then examine the ability of different (...)
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