A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of
words is essentially arbitrary—typically the sound of a word gives no hint of its meaning …

Computational models of lexical semantics, such as latent semantic analysis, can
automatically generate semantic similarity measures between words from statistical …

Several phonological and prosodic properties of words have been shown to relate to
differences between grammatical categories. Distributional information about grammatical …

Recent research has demonstrated that systematic mappings between phonological word
forms and their meanings can facilitate language learning (eg, in the form of sound …

Over the course of the first 2 years of life, infants are learning a great deal about the sound
system of their native language. Acquiring the sound system requires the infant to learn …

Substantial research has been undertaken to understand the relationship between spelling
and sound, but we know little about the relationship between spelling and meaning in …

Circular convolution and random permutation have each been proposed as neurally
plausible binding operators capable of encoding sequential information in semantic …

Purpose Two-year-olds produce third person singular–s more accurately on verbs in
sentence-final position as compared with verbs in sentence-medial position. This study was …

According to current models, spoken word recognition is driven by the phonological
properties of the speech signal. However, several studies have suggested that orthographic …