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Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition

We introduce theory-neutral estimates of the amount of information learners possess about how language works. We provide estimates at several levels of linguistic analysis: phonemes, wordforms, lexical semantics, word frequency and syntax. Our best guess is that the average English-speaking adult ha...

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Autores principales: Mollica, Francis, Piantadosi, Steven T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6458406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31032001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181393