Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

ABSTRACT A number of issues concerning the role of consciousness in foreign language
learning are identified, defined, and shown to be essentially the same as issues that have …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Implicit learning and statistical learning are two contemporary approaches to the long‐
standing question in psychology and cognitive science of how organisms pick up on …

If we will observe how children learn languages, we will find that, to make them understand
what the names of simple ideas or substances stand for, people ordinarily show them the …

One very active research tradition in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) attempts
to establish causal relationships between environmental factors and learning. These include …

Previous research suggests that language learners can detect and use the statistical
properties of syllable sequences to discover words in continuous speech (eg Aslin, RN …

Long studied by anthropologists, historians, and linguists, oral traditions have provided a
wealth of fascinating insights into unique cultural customs that span the history of …

Human learners, including infants, are highly sensitive to structure in their environment.
Statistical learning refers to the process of extracting this structure. A major question in …