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Exploring the "anchor word" effect in infants:Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words
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Insights from studying statistical learning
Frost, Rebecca L.A.; Monaghan, P.. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020
Abstract: Acquiring language is notoriously complex, yet for the majority of children this feat is accomplished with remarkable ease. Usage-based accounts of language acquisition suggest that this success can be largely attributed to the wealth of experience with language that children accumulate over the course of language acquisition. One field of research that is heavily underpinned by this principle of experience is statistical learning, which posits that learners can perform powerful computations over the distribution of information in a given input, which can help them to discern precisely how that input is structured, and how it operates. A growing body of work brings this notion to bear in the field of language acquisition, due to a developing understanding of the richness of the statistical information contained in speech. In this chapter we discuss the role that statistical learning plays in language acquisition, emphasising the importance of both the distribution of information within language, and the situation in which language is being learnt. First, we address the types of statistical learning that apply to a range of language learning tasks, asking whether the statistical processes purported to support language learning are the same or distinct across different tasks in language acquisition. Second, we expand the perspective on what counts as environmental input, by determining how statistical learning operates over the situated learning environment, and not just sequences of sounds in utterances. Finally, we address the role of variability in children’s input, and examine how statistical learning can accommodate (and perhaps even exploit) this during language acquisition. © 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company
URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.03fro
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/153372/
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Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development
Frost, R; Jessop, A; Durrant, S. - : Elsevier, 2020
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