Statistical learning of language: A meta‐analysis into 25 years of research

ES Isbilen, MH Christiansen - Cognitive Science, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Statistical learning is a key concept in our understanding of language acquisition. Ample
work has highlighted its role in numerous linguistic functions—yet statistical learning is not a …

[كتاب][B] Explain me this: Creativity, competition, and the partial productivity of constructions

AE Goldberg - 2019‏ - books.google.com
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Learning additional languages as hierarchical probabilistic inference: Insights from first language processing

B Pajak, AB Fine, DF Kleinschmidt… - Language …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present a framework of second and additional language (L2/Ln) acquisition motivated by
recent work on socio‐indexical knowledge in first language (L1) processing. The distribution …

What sticks after statistical learning: The persistence of implicit versus explicit memory traces

H Liu, TA Forest, K Duncan, AS Finn - Cognition, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Statistical learning is a powerful mechanism that extracts even subtle regularities from our
information-dense worlds. Recent theories argue that statistical learning can occur through …

Failure to consolidate statistical learning in developmental dyslexia

R Ballan, SJ Durrant, DS Manoach, Y Gabay - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2023‏ - Springer
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in sensory input, serves as one of the
building blocks of language acquisition. Although SL has been studied extensively in …

Second language experience facilitates statistical learning of novel linguistic materials

CE Potter, T Wang, JR Saffran - Cognitive science, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has begun to explore individual differences in statistical learning, and how
those differences may be related to other cognitive abilities, particularly their effects on …

Reduced competition effects and noisier representations in a second language

K Tachihara, AE Goldberg - Language Learning, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Native speakers strongly disprefer novel formulations when a conventional alternative
expresses the same intended message, presumably because the more conventional form …

The advantage of starting big: Learning from unsegmented input facilitates mastery of grammatical gender in an artificial language

N Siegelman, I Arnon - Journal of Memory and Language, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Why is it difficult to learn a second language as an adult? We focus on the way adults'
existing knowledge of words impacts L2 learning. We suggest adults' prior knowledge leads …

A cross-modal investigation of statistical learning in developmental dyslexia

N Kligler, Y Gabay - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Structural patterns existing in language can be exploited for implicit prediction of sequences
in speech and visual input via a process termed statistical learning (SL). Despite extensive …

Syllables in sync form a link: Neural phase-locking reflects word knowledge during language learning

L Batterink - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2020‏ - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Language is composed of small building blocks, which combine to form larger
meaningful structures. To understand language, we must process, track, and concatenate …