Learning a language requires both statistical computations to identify words in speech and
algebraic-like computations to discover higher level (grammatical) structure. Here we show …

How recurrent typological patterns, or universals, emerge from the extensive diversity found
across the world's languages constitutes a central question for linguistics and cognitive …

Languages vary strikingly in how they encode motion events. In some languages (eg
English), manner of motion is typically encoded within the verb, while direction of motion …

In order to acquire a lexicon, young children must segment speech into words, even though
most words are unfamiliar to them. This is a non-trivial task because speech lacks any …

How do learners discover the structure in linguistic input? One set of cues which learners
might use to acquire phrase structure are the dependencies, or predictive relationships …

Two experiments examined the learning of form-meaning connections under conditions
where the relevant forms were noticed but the critical aspects of meaning were not …

This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure.
Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations …

Recent advances in information technology have enabled scientists to generate
unprecedented amounts of earth-related data, with tremendous potential for dealing with …

Two striking contrasts currently exist in the sentence processing literature. First, whereas
adult readers rely heavily on lexical information in the generation of syntactic alternatives …

There is growing evidence that infants become sensitive to the probabilistic phonotactics of
their ambient language sometime during the second half of their first year. The present study …