Social salience discriminates learnability of contextual cues in an artificial language

We investigate the learning of contextual meaning by adults in an artificial language. Contextual meaning here refers to the non-denotative contextual information that speakers attach to a linguistic construction. Through a series of short games, played online, we test how well adults can learn diff...

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Main Authors: Rácz, P, Hay, J, Pierrehumbert, J
Format: Journal article
Published: Frontiers Media 2017