For many years the evolution of language has been seen as a disreputable topic, mired in
fanciful “just so stories” about language origins. However, in the last decade a new synthesis …

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) …

In this response to Pinker and Jackendoff's critique, we extend our previous framework for
discussion of language evolution, clarifying certain distinctions and elaborating on a number …

This chapter presents an extended formulation of the Competition Model. The extended
model is designed to account for a large range of phenomena in first and second language …

The authors investigated the extent to which touch, vision, and audition mediate the
processing of statistical regularities within sequential input. Few researchers have …

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing emphasis on studying the link
between infant speech perception and later language acquisition. This research has yielded …

A central question in psycholinguistic research is how listeners isolate words from
connected speech despite the paucity of clear word-boundary cues in the signal. A large …

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 …

We addressed the hypothesis that word segmentation based on statistical regularities
occurs without the need of attention. Participants were presented with a stream of artificial …

Statistical learning is one of the key mechanisms available to human infants and adults
when they face the problems of segmenting a speech stream (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport …