When global structure " Explains Away" local grammar: A Bayesian account of rule-induction in tone sequences

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 350-359

  Dawson, Colin ^a   Gerken, LouAnn ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Language acquisition; Music cognition; Rule learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSIC; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79959811223     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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