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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 110-114Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.01243
Keywords
language acquisition; statistical learning; infants
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What types of mechanisms underlie the acquisition of human language? Recent evidence suggest that learners, including infants, can use statistical properties of linguistic input to discover structure, including sound patterns, words, and the beginnings of grammar. These abilities appear to be both powerful and constrained, such that some statistical patterns are more readily detected and used than others. Implications for the structure of human languages are discussed.
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