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Minier, Laure; Fagot, Joël; Rey, Arnaud – Cognitive Science, 2016
Extracting the regularities of our environment is one of our core cognitive abilities. To study the fine-grained dynamics of the extraction of embedded regularities, a method combining the advantages of the artificial language paradigm (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, [Saffran, J. R., 1996]) and the serial response time task (Nissen & Bullemer,…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Cognitive Ability, Language Patterns, Primatology
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Arnold, Kate; Zuberbuhler, Klaus – Brain and Language, 2012
Syntax is widely considered the feature that most decisively sets human language apart from other natural communication systems. Animal vocalisations are generally considered to be holistic with few examples of utterances meaning something other than the sum of their parts. Previously, we have shown that male putty-nosed monkeys produce call…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Syntax, Primatology, Evolution