Sequences of speech sounds play a central role in human cognitive life, and the principles that govern such sequences are crucial in determining the syntax and semantics Of natural languages. Infants are capable of extracting both simple transitional probabilities and simple algebraic rides from sequences of speech, as demonstrated by studies using ABB grammars (la ta ta, gai mu mu, etc Here, we report a striking finding: Infants are better able to extract rules from sequences of nonspeech-such as sequences of musical tones, animal sounds, or varying timbres-if they first hear those rules instantiated in sequences of speech.
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机译：语音序列在人类认知生活中起着核心作用，控制这些序列的原则对于确定自然语言的语法和语义至关重要。婴儿能够从语音序列中提取简单的过渡概率和简单的代数游乐，如使用ABB语法（la ta ta，gai mu mu等）的研究所证明的那样，在这里，我们报告了一个惊人的发现：婴儿能够更好地提取规则从非语音序列（例如音乐音调，动物声音或变化的音色序列）中提取出来的（如果他们首先听到了在语音序列中实例化的那些规则）。
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