Language learning: adults integrate probabilistic information across global and local hierarchies, but children process different levels of probabilistic information in parallel
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The nature of human inferences is multimodal... and this is one reason why we outperform AIs in inferring information about events
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GPT models outperform both a representative sample of Americans and a renowned ethicist in providing moral explanations and advice (= Moral Turing Test)
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An emergentist account of language in the brain
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The limitations of large language models (LLMs)for understanding human language and cognition
❌LLMs are not theories, they are tools
❌LLMs are fundamentally divorced from the behaviors, and broad base of cognition, that are tightly tied to human language
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Whale communication follows Menzerath's law (= longer sequences are comprised of shorter elements to maximize communicative efficiency)
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Bouba and Kiki go compositional
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Interactive repair and the foundations of language
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En tanto que funcionarios, deberíamos tener claro que la defensa de lo público pasa, ante todo, por cumplir con nuestras obligaciones
❌El absentismo entre nosotros es un 26% superior al del sector privado
❌ 1/3 de las ausencias son sin baja médica
abc.es/economia/dia-f…

Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow
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Infant vocal category exploration as a foundation for speech development
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Don't miss this great collection of papers on the adaptive role of musicality in human evolution
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Cool: musical instruments and music-related words of Central African hunter-gatherers precede their adoption of Bantu languages
nature.com/articles/s4156…

No evidence for language syntax in songbird vocalizations
frontiersin.org/journals/psych…
👆Core-Merge is an unhelpful notion for comparing the birds' call communication system with human language

How our auditory system distinguishes music from speech
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Besides being an object of philosophical questions, Large Language Models might be suppliers of philosophical answers too
3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2…

Localization of stuttering based on causal brain lesions
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