Supplementary material from "Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition"
To convey meaning, human language relies on hierarchically organized, long-range relationships spanning words, phrases, sentences and discourse. As the distances between elements (e.g. phonemes, characters, words) in human language sequences increase, the strength of the long-range relationships bet...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5862335.v1 2023-05-15T16:36:03+02:00 Supplementary material from "Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition" Sainburg, Tim Mai, Anna Gentner, Timothy Q. 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5862335.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Long-range_sequential_dependencies_precede_complex_syntactic_production_in_language_acquisition_/5862335/1 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2657 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5862335 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Developmental Biology 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified FOS Psychology 60801 Animal Behaviour FOS Biological sciences article Collection 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5862335.v1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2657 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5862335 2022-03-10T15:44:11Z To convey meaning, human language relies on hierarchically organized, long-range relationships spanning words, phrases, sentences and discourse. As the distances between elements (e.g. phonemes, characters, words) in human language sequences increase, the strength of the long-range relationships between those elements decays following a power law. This power-law relationship has been attributed variously to long-range sequential organization present in human language syntax, semantics and discourse structure. However, non-linguistic behaviours in numerous phylogenetically distant species, ranging from humpback whale song to fruit fly motility, also demonstrate similar long-range statistical dependencies. Therefore, we hypothesized that long-range statistical dependencies in human speech may occur independently of linguistic structure. To test this hypothesis, we measured long-range dependencies in several speech corpora from children (aged 6 months–12 years). We find that adult-like power-law statistical dependencies are present in human vocalizations at the earliest detectable ages, prior to the production of complex linguistic structure. These linguistic structures cannot, therefore, be the sole cause of long-range statistical dependencies in language. Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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To convey meaning, human language relies on hierarchically organized, long-range relationships spanning words, phrases, sentences and discourse. As the distances between elements (e.g. phonemes, characters, words) in human language sequences increase, the strength of the long-range relationships between those elements decays following a power law. This power-law relationship has been attributed variously to long-range sequential organization present in human language syntax, semantics and discourse structure. However, non-linguistic behaviours in numerous phylogenetically distant species, ranging from humpback whale song to fruit fly motility, also demonstrate similar long-range statistical dependencies. Therefore, we hypothesized that long-range statistical dependencies in human speech may occur independently of linguistic structure. To test this hypothesis, we measured long-range dependencies in several speech corpora from children (aged 6 months–12 years). We find that adult-like power-law statistical dependencies are present in human vocalizations at the earliest detectable ages, prior to the production of complex linguistic structure. These linguistic structures cannot, therefore, be the sole cause of long-range statistical dependencies in language. |
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