Linguistic adaptation is a phenomenon where language representations change in
response to linguistic input. Adaptation can occur on multiple linguistic levels such as …

A wide variety of organisms employ specialized mechanisms to cope with the demands of
their environment. We suggest that the same is true for humans when acquiring artificial …

Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on
performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this …

The visual environment contains massive amounts of information involving the relations
between objects in space and time, and recent studies of visual statistical learning (VSL) …

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the
nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one …

Two experiments investigated the mechanism by which listeners adjust their interpretation of
accented speech that is similar to a regional dialect of American English. Only a subset of …

Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology:
channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive …

A perceptual learning experiment provides evidence that the mental lexicon cannot consist
solely of detailed acoustic traces of recognition episodes. In a training lexical decision …

How do infants learn the sound patterns of their native language? By the end of the 1st year,
infants have acquired detailed aspects of the phonology and phonotactics of their input …

Two experiments investigated whether novel phonotactic regularities, not present in English,
could be acquired by 16.5-month-old infants from brief auditory experience. Subjects …