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Communicative signals support abstract rule learning by 7-month-old infants

Description:

The mechanisms underlying the discovery of abstract rules like those found in natural language may be evolutionarily tuned to speech, according to previous research. When infants hear speech sounds, they can learn rules that govern their combination, but when they hear non-speech sounds such as sine-wave tones, they fail to...

Keyword:

speech, abstract rule learning, and infant learning

Creator:

Brock Ferguson and Casey Lew-Williams

Depositor:

Anne E Zald

Owner:

Chris Diaz

Publisher:

Springer Nature

Language:

English

Date Uploaded:

03/13/2017

Date Modified:

05/08/2017

Date Created:

2016-05-06

Resource Type:

Article