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Semantics Boosts Syntax in Artificial Grammar Learning Tasks with Recursion
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Fedor, Anna; Varga, Mate; Szathmary, Eors – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Center-embedded recursion (CER) in natural language is exemplified by sentences such as "The malt that the rat ate lay in the house." Parsing center-embedded structures is in the focus of attention because this could be one of the cognitive capacities that make humans distinct from all other animals. The ability to parse CER is usually…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Grammar, Sentences