Rule learning by seven-month-old infants. Marcus, G. F, Vijayan, S, Rao, S B., & Vishton, P. Science, 283(5398):77-80, 1999.
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A fundamental task of language acquisition is to extract abstract algebraic rules. Three experiments show that 7-month-old infants attend longer to sentences with unfamiliar structures than to sentences with familiar structures. The design of the artificial language task used in these experiments ensured that this discrimination could not be performed by counting, by a system that is sensitive only to transitional probabilities, or by a popular class of simple neural network models. Instead, these results suggest that infants can represent, extract, and generalize abstract algebraic rules.
@Article{Marcus-Science,
  author   = {Marcus, Gary F and Vijayan, S and Rao, S Bandi and Vishton, PM},
  journal  = {Science},
  title    = {Rule learning by seven-month-old infants.},
  year     = {1999},
  number   = {5398},
  pages    = {77-80},
  volume   = {283},
  abstract = {A fundamental task of language acquisition is to extract abstract
	algebraic rules. Three experiments show that 7-month-old infants
	attend longer to sentences with unfamiliar structures than to sentences
	with familiar structures. The design of the artificial language task
	used in these experiments ensured that this discrimination could
	not be performed by counting, by a system that is sensitive only
	to transitional probabilities, or by a popular class of simple neural
	network models. Instead, these results suggest that infants can represent,
	extract, and generalize abstract algebraic rules.},
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