Why is language the way it is? How did language come to be this way? And why is our
species alone in having complex language? These are old unsolved questions that have …

What types of mechanisms underlie the acquisition of human language? Recent evidence
suggests that learners, including infants, can use statistical properties of linguistic input to …

This paper introduces the notion of frequent frames, distributional patterns based on co-
occurrence patterns of words in sentences, then investigates the usefulness of this …

Although animals of many species have been shown to discriminate between visual–spatial
arrays or auditory–temporal sequences based on numerosity, most of the evidence for …

Language is without doubt one of the most intricate and complex behaviors known to date,
and among the few that clearly distinguishes humans from the rest of the living world. As an …

Statistisches Lernen ist ein grundlegender Mechanismus der Informationsverarbeitung im
menschlichen Gehirn. Dabei werden aus der Flut sensorischer Daten probabilistische …

“Does grammar start where statistics stop?”, ask MS Seidenberg et al. in the title of their
Perspective (18 Oct., p. 553). Arguing against a “reconcilist” position in which complex …

Perhaps the best-known fact about developmental speech perception is that infants are
remarkably adept at discriminating phonetic contrasts. In early infancy, this ability is …

Universal grammar (UG) is a list of innate constraints that specify the set of grammars that
can be learned by the child during primary language acquisition. UG of the human brain has …

抄録 The ability to generalize—to abstract regularities from our experiences that can be
applied to new experiences—is fundamental to human cognition and our abilities to flexibly …