Grammatical pattern learning by human infants and cotton-top tamarin monkeys

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 479-500

  Saffran, Jenny ^a   Hauser, Marc ^b,c   Seibel, Rebecca ^a   Kapfhamer, Joshua ^a   Tsao, Fritz ^d   Cushman, Fiery ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HILLSDALE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammar learning; Infants; Monkeys; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MONKEY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; APTITUDE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SAGUINUS; SEMANTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41349109367     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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