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Michael C. Frank is a developmental psychologist at Stanford University who proposed that infants' language development may be thought of as a process of Bayesian inference.[1] He has also studied the role of language in numerical cognition by comparing the performance of native Pirahã language speakers to that of MIT undergraduate students in numeric tasks.[2] For this work, he traveled to Amazonas, Brazil with Daniel Everett, a linguist best known for his claim that Pirahã disproves a crucial component of Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar, recursion. Frank won the Cognitive Science Society's prestigious Marr Award for this work in 2008.[3]

References

  1. ^ Frank, M. C., Goodman, N. D., & Tenenbaum, J. (2009). Using speakers’ referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. Psychological Science, 20, 579-585.
  2. ^ Frank, M. C., Everett, D. L., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E., (2008). Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition[permanent dead link‍]. Cognition, 108, 819-824.
  3. ^ List of Marr Award winners Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine published by the Cognitive Science Society
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