Alethia Cui Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Minimal Pairs and the Emergence of Phonological Categories Phonological categories form a system of contrast in the lexicon. In phonological analysis, minimal pairs are used to diagnose whether two speech sounds are phonemes. Although statistical learning has been popular as an explanation for phonological acquisition, […]
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Sam Gershman Department of Psychology Center for Brain Science Harvard University The compositional nature of human function learning How do people recognize and learn about complex functional structure? Taking inspiration from other areas of cognitive science, I argue that this is achieved by harnessing compositionality: complex structure is decomposed into simpler building blocks. […]