Categorical perception and language evolution: a comparative and neurological perspective

Front Psychol. 2023 Apr 27:14:1110730. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1110730. eCollection 2023.

Elizabeth Qing Zhang^{1

2}, Edward Ruoyang Shi³, Lluís Barceló-Coblijn^{4

5}

¹ School of Linguistic Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China.
² Center for Language Evolution Studies, University Centre of Excellence IMSErt, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
³ Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Laboratori d'Investigació en Complexitat i de Lingüística Experimental, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
⁵ Laboratori d'Investigació en Complexitat i de Lingüística Experimental, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Illes Balears, Palma, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: categorical learning; categorical perception; comparative perspective; discreteness; language evolution; neurological perspective.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the Spanish MICINN (PID2021-128404NA-I00).