Monica Tamariz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Monica Tamariz plays a role.
Articles
2011 Could arbitrary imitation and pattern completion have bootstrapped human linguistic communication? Interaction Studies 12:1, pp. 36–62 | Article
The present study explores the idea that human linguistic communication co-opted a pre-existing population-wide behavioural system that was shared among social group members and whose structure reflected the structure of the environment. This system is hypothesized to have emerged from… read more
2008 Exploring systematicity between phonological and context-cooccurrence representations of the mental lexicon The Mental Lexicon 3:2, pp. 259–278 | Article
This paper investigates the existence of systematicity between two similarity-based representations of the lexicon, one focusing on word-form and another one based on cooccurrence statistics in speech, which captures aspects of syntax and semantics. An analysis of the three most frequent… read more