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Direct linkNewport, Elissa L.; Hauser, Marc D.; Spaepen, Geertrui; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
In earlier work we have shown that adults, infants, and cotton-top tamarin monkeys are capable of computing the probability with which syllables occur in particular orders in rapidly presented streams of human speech, and of using these probabilities to group adjacent syllables into word-like units. We have also investigated adults' learning of…
Descriptors: Learning, Primatology, Animal Behavior, Probability
