Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lev-Ari S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5570344 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20170824 8
We learn language from our social environment. In general, the more sources we have, the less informative each of them is, and the less weight we should assign it. If this is the case, people who interact with fewer others should be more susceptible to the influence of each of their interlocutors. This paper tests whether indeed people who interact with fewer other people have more malleable phonological representations. Using a perceptual learning paradigm, this paper shows that individuals who ...[more]