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COGSCI
2011
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Japanese Sound-Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English-Speaking Children
Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary link between the sound of a word and its meaning. Imai et al. (2008) showed that Japanese speaking children benefited from the presence of sou...
Katerina Kantartzis, Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
COGSCI
2010
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The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective
Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these ‘‘ling...
Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater
COGSCI
2010
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Network Structure Influences Speech Production
Network science provides a new way to look at old questions in cognitive science by examining the structure of a complex system, and how that structure might influence processing....
Kit Ying Chan, Michael S. Vitevitch
COGSCI
2010
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Beyond Core Knowledge: Natural Geometry
For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane,...
Elizabeth S. Spelke, Sang Ah Lee, Véronique...
COGSCI
2010
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Five Reasons to Doubt the Existence of a Geometric Module
It is frequently claimed that the human mind is organized in a modular fashion, a hypothesis linked historically, though not inevitably, to the claim that many aspects of the huma...
Alexandra D. Twyman, Nora S. Newcombe