Language universals in human brains
- *Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991;
- ‡Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea;
- §Department of Psychology, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226;
- ¶Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT 06511; and
- ‖Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Communicated by Roger N. Shepard, Stanford University, Tucson, AZ, February 14, 2008 (received for review August 30, 2007)
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Fig. 1.Response accuracy (A) and response time (B) to monosyllabic items and their disyllabic counterparts in Experiment 1. Bars indicate confidence intervals for the difference between the means.
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Fig. 2.Response accuracy and response time to nonidentity trials in Experiment 2. Bars indicate confidence intervals for the difference between the means.
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Fig. 3.The correlation between the distribution of onset-cluster types across languages and the performance of Korean and English speakers. The abscissa provides the frequency of four onset types in a sample of 90 languages (21, 22). The ordinate reflects the accuracy of Korean and English speakers (English data from ref. 22) to such onsets in syllable count and identity judgment tasks.
Footnotes
- †To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: iberent{at}fau.edu
- © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
