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Nine-Month-Olds Extract Structural Principles Required for Natural Language
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Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2004
Infants' ability to rapidly extract properties of language-like systems during brief laboratory exposures has been taken as evidence about the innate linguistic state of humans. However, previous studies have focused on structural properties that are not central to descriptions of natural language. In the current study, infants were exposed to 3-…
Descriptors: Infants, Natural Language Processing, Structural Linguistics, Syllables