Affixation patterns in native language and sequence processing by statistical learning mechanisms
The suffixing bias (the tendency to exploit suffixes more often than prefixes to express grammatical meanings) in languages was identified a century ago, yet we still lack a clear account for why it emerged, namely, whether the bias emerged because general cognitive mechanisms shape languages to be...
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Cambridge University Press
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Human Sciences |
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