Symbol T
T is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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While the recursion debate ran on argument and reanalysis, a separate research program was accumulating experimental results that never claimed to resolve the poverty-of-the-stimulus question but did show that infants arrive with more general-purpose statistical machinery than a strict nativist account had reason to expect. Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin and Elissa Newport’s 1996 Science paper remains the field’s most cited demonstration. Eight-month-old infants heard two minutes of a continuous, monotone synthetic speech stream built from four made-up three-syllable “words,” with no pauses, stress cues, or other surface markers at word boundaries; the only information available to distinguish…
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Symbol P
P is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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Y occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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X is an argument of the function-like quantity on the left; its role is set by that function’s stated inputs.
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The complete quantity above the fraction bar.
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The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
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With a fixed numerator, increasing a nonzero denominator reduces the fraction. Read it with the definitions, units, and assumptions supplied by the article.
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The Language Instinct on Trial: Chomsky, Pinker, and the Pirahã
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While the recursion debate ran on argument and reanalysis, a separate research program was accumulating experimental results that never claimed to resolve the poverty-of-the-stimulus question but did show that infants arrive with more general-purpose statistical machinery than a strict nativist account had reason to expect. Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin and Elissa Newport’s 1996 Science paper remains the field’s most cited demonstration. Eight-month-old infants heard two minutes of a continuous, monotone synthetic speech stream built from four made-up three-syllable “words,” with no pauses, stress cues, or other surface markers at word boundaries; the only information available to distinguish…
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