The repetitive syntactic pattern eases people’s processing of the meaning, and easier processing rewards people neurologically. [i] Scientists call this mental assistance, cognitive facilitation.

Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.

When the repetition patterns did not match such syntactically possible structures, participants failed to learn them. Our results suggest that when human adults hear a string of nouns and verbs, their ...

The Birds And The B's: Challenging Chomsky, Starlings Learn 'Human-only' Syntax Patterns Date: April 28, 2006 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: The European starling -- long ...

A newer class of methods instead exploits "semantic independence," identifying syntactic patterns like bullet points and expanding each in parallel.

This three-ounce bird, new research shows, can learn syntactic patterns formerly thought to be the exclusive province of humans.