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Speaker Input Variability Does Not Explain Why Larger Populations Have Simpler Languages

A learner’s linguistic input is more variable if it comes from a greater number of speakers. Higher speaker input variability has been shown to facilitate the acquisition of phonemic boundaries, since data drawn from multiple speakers provides more information about the distribution of phonemes in a...

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Autores principales: Atkinson, Mark, Kirby, Simon, Smith, Kenny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129463