1992/03/01 by Robert Gisiner, Ronald J. Schusterman · 3 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · #Behavioral and Psychological Studies #Biology #Child and Animal Learning Development #Communication #Computer science #Ecology #Hearing Impairment and Communication #Linguistics #Mathematics #Natural language processing #Programming language #Psychology #Sea lion #Semantics (computer science) #Set (abstract data type) #Sign (mathematics) #Sign language #Syntax #Zalophus californianus
paper · doi:10.1037/0735-7036.106.1.78
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We present a sea lion's (Zalophus californianus) responses to anomalous (unfamiliar) combinations of signs created by reordering, deleting, or adding signs. The sea lion's responses to these anomalous combinations demosntrated that she had learned a number of syntactic relations from exposure to a limited set of standard combinatorial forms. The learned syntactic relations included two types of conditional relations, (a) sequential conditional relations between sign classes and (b) hierarchical conditional relations between subsets of signs within a combination