Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

Abstract 1. Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (eg, in the form of sound symbolism or cues to grammatical categories). Yet, paradoxically from a learning ...

Abstract 1. Domain-specific systems are hypothetically specialized with respect to the outputs they compute and the inputs they allow (Fodor, 1983). Here, we examine whether these 2 conditions for specialization are dissociable. An initial experiment suggests that ...