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The emergence of word-internal repetition through iterated learning: Explaining the mismatch between learning biases and language design

2020-12-16

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<p>The idea that natural language is shaped by biases in learning plays a key role in our understanding of how human language is structured, but its corollary that there should be a correspondence between typological generalisations and ease of acquisition is not always supported. For example, natural languages tend to avoid close repetitions of consonants within a word, but developmental evidence suggests that, i...

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Literature Corpus work: 581b5886-6b20-5e45-adf7-19ef438ec417
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ctv9f

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