Naming a structured world: A cultural route to duality of patterning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Tria, Francesca ^a   Galantucci, Bruno ^b,c   Loreto, Vittorio ^a,d  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ERROR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; PHONEME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84862532680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037744     Document Type: Article

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