Purpose Statistical learning research seeks to identify the means by which learners, with
little perceived effort, acquire the complexities of language. In the past 50 years, numerous …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Constructions work Page 1 Constructions work ADELE E. GOLDBERG1 Abstract This paper
provides responses to the points raised in this volume in an e¤ort to evaluate, clarify and …

Four experiments used the head-turn preference procedure to assess whether infants could
extract and remember information from auditory strings produced by a miniature artificial …

In Chapters 1 and 2, I made the claim that developing an explanatory theory of SLA will
necessarily involve finding a way to link a theory of grammar to theories of perception …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

This paper introduces the notion of frequent frames, distributional patterns based on co-
occurrence patterns of words in sentences, then investigates the usefulness of this …

It is often assumed that metalinguistic performance (eg, detection of ambiguity, judgments of
grammaticality) straightforwardly reflects linguistic knowledge. The inadequacies of such an …

We investigated the developmental trajectory of nonadjacent dependency learning in an
artificial language. Infants were exposed to 1 of 2 artificial languages with utterances of the …

Previous research has shown that, for learners to fully acquire a miniature phrase structure
language, the language must contain cues to the phrases—for example, prosodic grouping …