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- August 26, 2010
- 04:26 AM
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Universal Patterns in Colour Terms are not Evidence for Innate Constraints
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
In a series of posts, I've been discussing constraints on the evolution of colour terms. Here, I discuss the role of drift and argue that universal patterns are not necessarily good evidence for innate constraints.... Read more »
Steels, L., & Belpaeme, T. (2005) Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(04). DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05000087
Belpaeme, T. (2005) Explaining Universal Color Categories Through a Constrained Acquisition Process. Adaptive Behavior, 13(4), 293-310. DOI: 10.1177/105971230501300404
Kirby, S., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. (2007) Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(12), 5241-5245. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608222104
- August 25, 2010
- 05:26 AM
- 40 views
Niche Construction in Colour Term Evolution
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Language’s influence on perception can be regarded as a form of Niche Construction. The words we have for colours affects the way in which we co-operate with others to change the world. Therefore, not only does language become better at describing the environment, but the environment becomes better suited to being described by language.... Read more »
Laland, K., Odling-Smee, J., & Feldman, M. (2000) Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(1), 131-146. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00002417
Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S., & Gegenfurtner, K. (2006) Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience, 9(11), 1367-1368. DOI: 10.1038/nn1794
Heslop-Harrison, J., & Schwarzacher, T. (2007) Domestication, Genomics and the Future for Banana. Annals of Botany, 100(5), 1073-1084. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm191
Griffin, L. (2004) Optimality of the Basic Colours Categories. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 309-309. DOI: 10.1167/4.8.309
- August 24, 2010
- 07:35 AM
- 56 views
Perceptual Warping of Colour
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
There is evidence that categorisations can influence perception, which has been identified as a crucial argument for Relativism. In this post, the idea of perceptual warping is explained and applied to colour categorisation.... Read more »
DEBOER, B. (2000) Self-organization in vowel systems. Journal of Phonetics, 28(4), 441-465. DOI: 10.1006/jpho.2000.0125
Goldstone, R. (1994) Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123(2), 178-200. DOI: 10.1037//0096-3445.123.2.178
Kuhl, P. (1994) Learning and representation in speech and language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4(6), 812-822. DOI: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90128-7
Miyawaki, K., Strange, W., Verbrugge, R. R., Liberman, A. M., Jenkins, J. J., & Fujimura, O. (1975) An effect of linguistic experience: The discrimination of (r) and (l) by native speakers of Japanese and English . Perception and Psychophysics, 331-340. info:/
KUHL, P. (1983) Perception of auditory equivalence classes for speech in early infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 6(2-3), 263-285. DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(83)80036-8
Lupyan G. (2008) From chair to "chair": a representational shift account of object labeling effects on memory. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 137(2), 348-69. PMID: 18473663
Buchsbaum, G. (2002) Color categories revealed by non-negative matrix factorization of Munsell color spectra. Vision Research, 42(5), 559-563. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00303-0
Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2009) Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin , 16(3), 573-577. DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.3.573
- August 24, 2010
- 05:00 AM
- 34 views
Evolution of Colour Terms: 8 Embodied Relationships
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
In a series of posts, I’ve been discussing constraints on the evolution of colour terms. In the last post, I discussed Perceptual Warping. Here, a further adjustment to the assumptions about perceptual space is suggested.
The assumption that all perceptual spaces are the same may be unrealistic and may favour Universalism (see Levinson, 2000). To begin with, . . . → Read More: Evolution of Colour Terms: 8 Embodied Relationships... Read more »
Levinson, S. (2000) Yeli Dnye and the Theory of Basic Color Terms. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 10(1), 3-55. DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2000.10.1.3
Bornstein, M., Kessen, W., & Weiskopf, S. (1976) Color vision and hue categorization in young human infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2(1), 115-129. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.2.1.115
Roberson, D., Davidoff, J., Davies, I., & Shapiro, L. (2004) The Development of Color Categories in Two Languages: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133(4), 554-571. DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.133.4.554
- August 22, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 49 views
Evolution of Colour Terms: 6 Categorisation Constraints
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Continuing my series on the Evolution of Colour terms, this post reviews evidence for categorisation constraints on colour perception. For the full dissertation and for references, go here.
This section reviews the conflicting evidence for ability of linguistic categories to affect perception, which is crucial for the Cultural implication. Studies of Embodied Cognition which found evidence . . . → Read More: Evolution of Colour Terms: 6 Categorisation Constraints... Read more »
Aginsky, Michael, V., & Tarr, M. J. (2000) How Are Different Properties of a Scene Encoded in Visual Memory?. Visual Cognition, 7(1-3), 147-162. DOI: 10.1080/135062800394739
Kay, P., & Kempton, W. (1984) What Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?. American Anthropologist, 86(1), 65-79. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1984.86.1.02a00050
Zwaan, R., Stanfield, R., & Yaxley, R. (2002) Language Comprehenders Mentally Represent the Shapes of Objects. Psychological Science, 13(2), 168-171. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00430
Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T., & Gegenfurtner, K. (2010) The structure of color space is largely invariant under illuminant changes. Journal of Vision, 8(6), 574-574. DOI: 10.1167/8.6.574
Connell, L., & Lynott, D. (2009) Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin , 16(3), 573-577. DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.3.573
SPALEK, K., & THOMPSONSCHILL, S. (2008) Task-dependent semantic interference in language production: An fMRI study☆. Brain and Language, 107(3), 220-228. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.05.005
Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S., & Gegenfurtner, K. (2006) Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience, 9(11), 1367-1368. DOI: 10.1038/nn1794
Claidière, N., Jraissati, Y., & Chevallier, C. (2008) A Colour Sorting Task Reveals the Limits of the Universalist/Relativist Dichotomy: Colour Categories Can Be Both Language Specific and Perceptual. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8(3), 211-233. DOI: 10.1163/156853708X358155
Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M., Wu, L., Wade, A., & Boroditsky, L. (2007) Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(19), 7780-7785. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701644104
- August 21, 2010
- 01:56 PM
- 67 views
Evolution of Colour Terms: 5 Cultural Constraints
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Continuing my series on the Evolution of Colour terms, this post reviews studies of cultural constraints on colour naming. For the full dissertation and for references, go here.
This section reviews evidence of cultural constraints on colour terms. Modelling has shown that cultural transmission can cause individual categorisations of colour space to converge on shared categories, . . . → Read More: Evolution of Colour Terms: 5 Cultural Constraints... Read more »
Steels, L., & Belpaeme, T. (2005) Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(04). DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05000087
Belpaeme, T., & Bleys, J. (2005) Explaining Universal Color Categories Through a Constrained Acquisition Process. Adaptive Behavior, 13(4), 293-310. DOI: 10.1177/105971230501300404
Kirby, S., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2008) Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(31), 10681-10686. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707835105
Kirby, S., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. (2007) Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(12), 5241-5245. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608222104
KOMAROVA, N., JAMESON, K., & NARENS, L. (2007) Evolutionary models of color categorization based on discrimination. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 51(6), 359-382. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2007.06.001
- August 20, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 38 views
Evolution of Colour Terms: 4 Learning Constraints
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Continuing my series on the Evolution of Colour terms, this post reviews how learning constrains colour naming. For the full dissertation and for references, go here.
Memory and learning mechanisms are necessary to acquire colour categories (Komarova, Jameson & Narens, 2007). Models have shown that individual learning alone does not lead to categorisations that are shared . . . → Read More: Evolution of Colour Terms: 4 Learning Constraints... Read more »
KOMAROVA, N., JAMESON, K., & NARENS, L. (2007) Evolutionary models of color categorization based on discrimination. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 51(6), 359-382. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2007.06.001
Steels, L., & Belpaeme, T. (2005) Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(04). DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05000087
Lupyan G, & Dale R. (2010) Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PloS one, 5(1). PMID: 20098492
Roberson, D., Davies, I., Corbett, G., & Vandervyver, M. (2005) Free-Sorting of Colors Across Cultures: Are there Universal Grounds for Grouping?. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5(3), 349-386. DOI: 10.1163/156853705774648536
- August 19, 2010
- 06:00 AM
- 33 views
Evolution of Colour Terms: 3 Perceptual Constraints
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Continuing my series on the Evolution of Colour terms, this post reviews evidence for perceptual constraints on colour terms. For the full dissertation and for references, go here.
The perceptual space that results from the processing of opponent colours is non-uniform (see Figure below), meaning that there are optimal ways to describe it (Jameson & D’Andrade, . . . → Read More: Evolution of Colour Terms: 3 Perceptual Constraints... Read more »
Jameson, K., & D'Andrade, R.G. (1997) It's not really Red, Green, Yellow, Blue: An Inquiry into cognitive color space. Color Categories in Thought and Language. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511519819.014
Regier, T., Kay, P., & Khetarpal, N. (2007) Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(4), 1436-1441. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0610341104
Liljencrants, J., Lindblom, B., & Lindblom, B. (1972) Numerical Simulation of Vowel Quality Systems: The Role of Perceptual Contrast. Language, 48(4), 839. DOI: 10.2307/411991
DEBOER, B. (2000) Self-organization in vowel systems. Journal of Phonetics, 28(4), 441-465. DOI: 10.1006/jpho.2000.0125
Buchsbaum, G. (2002) Color categories revealed by non-negative matrix factorization of Munsell color spectra. Vision Research, 42(5), 559-563. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00303-0
- August 18, 2010
- 01:07 PM
- 53 views
Metroculturalism
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Recent activity in academia and the blogosphere has been encouraging scientists and everyday people to get out of the mono-mindset. Is monolingualism a legitimate abstraction for scientists or is bilingualism a fundamental part of language?... Read more »
Piller, I. (2010) The bilingual edge: why, when, and how to teach your child a second language. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13(1), 115-118. DOI: 10.1080/13670050802645942
Otsuji, E., & Pennycook, A. (2010) Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux. International Journal of Multilingualism, 7(3), 240-254. DOI: 10.1080/14790710903414331
- August 18, 2010
- 06:15 AM
- 53 views
Environmental Constraints on Colour Term Evolution
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Continuing my series on the Evolution of Colour terms, this post reviews evidence for environmental constraints on colour perception.... Read more »
Regan, B., Julliot, C., Simmen, B., Vienot, F., Charles-Dominique, P., & Mollon, J. (2001) Fruits, foliage and the evolution of primate colour vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 356(1407), 229-283. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0773
Clarke, B.C. (1979) The evolution of genetic diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 453-474. info:/
Mollon, J., Bowmaker, J., & Jacobs, G. (1984) Variations of Colour Vision in a New World Primate Can be Explained by Polymorphism of Retinal Photopigments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 222(1228), 373-399. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1984.0071
Webster, M., Webster, S., Bharadwaj, S., Verma, R., Jaikumar, J., Madan, G., & Vaithilingham, E. (2002) Variations in normal color vision. III. Unique hues in Indian and United States observers. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 19(10), 1951. DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.001951
LAENG, B., BRENNEN, T., ELDEN, A., GAAREPAULSEN, H., BANERJEE, A., & LIPTON, R. (2007) Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic. Vision Research, 47(12), 1595-1607. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.011
Dowman, M. (2007) Explaining Color Term Typology With an Evolutionary Model. Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30(1), 99-132. DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog3101_4
Griffin LD. (2006) Optimality of the basic colour categories for classification. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society, 3(6), 71-85. PMID: 16849219
- August 17, 2010
- 05:08 AM
- 51 views
Genetic Constraints on Colour Terms
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Continuing my series on the Evolution of Colour terms, this post reviews the evidence for genetic constrains on colour perception.... Read more »
Bornstein, M. (1973) Color vision and color naming: A psychophysiological hypothesis of cultural difference. Psychological Bulletin, 80(4), 257-285. DOI: 10.1037/h0034837
Lindsey, D., & Brown, A. (2002) Color Naming and the Phototoxic Effects of Sunlight on the Eye. Psychological Science, 13(6), 506-512. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00489
Hardy, J., Frederick, C., Kay, P., & Werner, J. (2004) Color naming and lens brunescence. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 56-56. DOI: 10.1167/4.8.56
Regier T, & Kay P. (2004) Color naming and sunlight: commentary on Lindsey and Brown (2002). Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 15(4), 289. PMID: 15043652
Steels, L., & Belpaeme, T. (2005) Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(04). DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05000087
Jameson KA, & Komarova NL. (2009) Evolutionary models of color categorization. II. Realistic observer models and population heterogeneity. Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision, 26(6), 1424-36. PMID: 19488182
- August 16, 2010
- 10:26 AM
- 71 views
The Evolution of Colour terms
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
In a series of posts, I’ll review the current state of the field of the Evolution of Colour Categories. It has been argued that universals in colour naming across cultures can be traced back to constraints from many domains including genetic, perceptual and environmental. I’ll review these arguments and show that if our perception is affected by our language, then many conflicts can be resolved.... Read more »
Mollon, J. (1999) Color vision: Opsins and options. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(9), 4743-4745. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.9.4743
Bornstein, M. (1973) Color vision and color naming: A psychophysiological hypothesis of cultural difference. Psychological Bulletin, 80(4), 257-285. DOI: 10.1037/h0034837
Jameson, K., & D'Andrade, R.G. (1997) It's not really Red, Green, Yellow, Blue: An Inquiry into cognitive color space. Color Categories in Thought and Language. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511519819.014
Regier, T., Kay, P., & Khetarpal, N. (2007) Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(4), 1436-1441. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0610341104
Griffin, L. (2004) Optimality of the Basic Colours Categories. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 309-309. DOI: 10.1167/4.8.309
Ember, M. (1978) Size of Color Lexicon: Interaction of Cultural and Biological Factors. American Anthropologist, 80(2), 364-367. DOI: 10.1525/aa.1978.80.2.02a00100
Lindsey, D., & Brown, A. (2002) Color Naming and the Phototoxic Effects of Sunlight on the Eye. Psychological Science, 13(6), 506-512. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00489
Regier T, & Kay P. (2004) Color naming and sunlight: commentary on Lindsey and Brown (2002). Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 15(4), 289. PMID: 15043652
Kuhl PK. (1991) Human adults and human infants show a "perceptual magnet effect" for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not. Perception , 50(2), 93-107. PMID: 1945741
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- August 13, 2010
- 06:48 AM
- 74 views
Language Evolution and Language Acquisition
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
The way children learn language sets the adaptive landscape on which languages evolve. This is acknowledged by many, but there are few connections between models of language acquisition and models of language Evolution. Here I review previous models of Language Acquisition and a recent model by Fazly et al.... Read more »
Nick Chater, & Morten H. Christiansen. (2010) Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution. Cognitive Science. info:/
Fazly, A., Alishahi, A., & Stevenson, S. (2010) A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning. Cognitive Science, 34(6), 1017-1063. DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01104.x
Frank MC, Goodman ND, & Tenenbaum JB. (2009) Using speakers' referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 20(5), 578-85. PMID: 19389131
Siskind, J. (1996) A computational study of cross-situational techniques for learning word-to-meaning mappings. Cognition, 61(1-2), 39-91. DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00728-7
Yu, C., Ballard, D., & Aslin, R. (2005) The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition. Cognitive Science, 29(6), 961-1005. DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_40
- July 26, 2010
- 10:06 AM
- 84 views
Bayesian Bilingualism
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
Recently, David Burkett and Tom Griffiths have looked at iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers (Burkett & Griffiths 2010, see my post here). Here, I’ll describe a simpler model which allows bilingualism. I show that, counter-intuitively, bilingualism may be more stable than monolingualism.
Model Definition
In my model, Learners receive data which is ‘tagged’ with the . . . → Read More: Bayesian Bilingualism... Read more »
David Burkett,, & Tom Griffiths. (2010) Iterated Learning of Multiple Languaged from Multiple Teachers. The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of EvoLang 2010. info:/
- July 26, 2010
- 09:50 AM
- 67 views
Learning Multiple languages from Multiple teachers
by Sean Roberts in A Replicated Typo 2.0
As Niyogi & Berwick (2009) point out, there is a tendency in modelling of Linguistic Evolution to assume chains of single learners inheriting single grammars from single teachers. This is, of course, not realistic – we learn language from many people and people can speak more than one language. However, Niyogi & Berwick suggest deeper objections.
First, . . . → Read More: Learning Multiple languages from Multiple teachers... Read more »
David Burkett,, & Tom Griffiths. (2010) Iterated Learning of Multiple Languaged from Multiple Teachers. The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of EvoLang 2010. info:/
Niyogi P, & Berwick RC. (2009) The proper treatment of language acquisition and change in a population setting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(25), 10124-9. PMID: 19497883
- June 24, 2010
- 02:09 PM
- 98 views
Cultural Induction is Hard
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
Chater and Christiansen (2010) argue that learning culturally transmitted systems such as language are easy to learn because they have adapted to learner's biases, so their intuitions will likely be correct. I argue against this using grammaticality judgements of Welsh.... Read more »
Nick Chater . (2010) Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution. Cognitive Science. info:/
- May 25, 2010
- 08:26 AM
- 123 views
Evolutionary approaches to Bilingualism
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
Video of a talk on Language Evolution and Bilingualism from the University Of Edinburgh's LEL Postgraduate Conference... Read more »
Frank MC, Goodman ND, & Tenenbaum JB. (2009) Using speakers' referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 20(5), 578-85. PMID: 19389131
Hunag, Y. (2009) Supporting Meaningful Social Networks. Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton. info:/
Byers-Heinlein K, & Werker JF. (2009) Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. Developmental science, 12(5), 815-23. PMID: 19702772
- May 13, 2010
- 05:34 PM
- 123 views
E-coli, Linux and Language
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
How do language structures compare to structures of Bacteria and Operating Systems?... Read more »
Yan, K., Fang, G., Bhardwaj, N., Alexander, R., & Gerstein, M. (2010) Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914771107
- May 11, 2010
- 09:33 AM
- 104 views
Mutual Exclusivity Biases in Cross-situational Learning
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
Frank et al. (2009)'s model of Child word acquisition is applied to a bilingual corpus.... Read more »
Frank MC, Goodman ND, & Tenenbaum JB. (2009) Using speakers' referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 20(5), 578-85. PMID: 19389131
Byers-Heinlein K, & Werker JF. (2009) Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. Developmental science, 12(5), 815-23. PMID: 19702772
Deák GO, Yen L, & Pettit J. (2001) By any other name: when will preschoolers produce several labels for a referent?. Journal of child language, 28(3), 787-804. PMID: 11797548
Frank, I., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2002) Young monolingual and bilingual children's responses to violation of the Mutual Exclusivity Principle. International Journal of Bilingualism, 6(2), 125-146. DOI: 10.1177/13670069020060020201
Markman EM, & Wachtel GF. (1988) Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words. Cognitive psychology, 20(2), 121-57. PMID: 3365937
Merriman WE, & Bowman LL. (1989) The mutual exclusivity bias in children's word learning. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 54(3-4), 1-132. PMID: 2608077
Merriman WE, Marazita J, & Jarvis LH. (1993) Four-year-olds' disambiguation of action and object word reference. Journal of experimental child psychology, 56(3), 412-30. PMID: 8301246
Healey, E. and Scarabela, B. (2009) Are children willing to accept two labels for one object?. Proceedings of the Child Language Seminar. University of Reading. info:/
- May 6, 2010
- 07:00 AM
- 103 views
Systematicity of RNA
by Sean Roberts in The Adventures of Auck
I've been looking at evolutionary precursors to bilingualism. What does this mean? At the moment, I'm thinking about it in the sense of having two or more signals which correspond to the same action or meaning. Not much before language, you say? How about going all the way back to RNA codes?RNA converts genetic information stored in DNA into proteins which regulate processes within cells. The ‘code’ for translating DNA into proteins is redundant but not ambiguous. There are varieties o........ Read more »
Marquez R, Smit S, & Knight R. (2005) Do universal codon-usage patterns minimize the effects of mutation and translation error?. Genome biology, 6(11). PMID: 16277746
Monica Tamariz, Andrew D. M. Smith. (2008) Quantifying the regularity of the mappings between signals and meanings. Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Evolution of Language. info:/
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