Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL REVIEW
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 66-108Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2015.05.002
Keywords
Statistical learning; Language acquisition; Individual differences; Developmental disorders
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- National Science Foundation [BCS0642415, 0946825]
- Division Of Graduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [0946825] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Considerable research indicates that learners are sensitive to probabilistic structure in laboratory studies of artificial language learning. However, the artificial and simplified nature of the stimuli used in the pioneering work on the acquisition of statistical regularities has raised doubts about the scalability of such learning to the complexity of natural language input. In this review, we explore a central prediction of statistical learning accounts of language acquisition - that sensitivity to statistical structure should be linked to real language processes - via an examination of: (1) recent studies that have increased the ecological validity of the stimuli; (2) studies that suggest statistical segmentation produces representations that share properties with real words; (3) correlations between individual variability in statistical learning ability and individual variability in language outcomes; and (4) atypicalities in statistical learning in clinical populations characterized by language delays or deficits. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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