New efforts are using head cameras and eye-trackers worn by infants to capture everyday
visual environments from the point of view of the infant learner. From this vantage point, the …

In a prior review, Perrruchet and Pacton (2006) noted that the literature on implicit learning
and the more recent studies on statistical learning focused on the same phenomena, namely …

This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the
general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of …

The learning of first object names is deemed a hard problem due to the uncertainty inherent
in mapping a heard name to the intended referent in a cluttered and variable world …

This chapter outlines a general view of form variation as reflecting different states of
equilibrium between competing communicative pressures. Two dominant pressures are …

Infants enculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life, yet theories of how they do
so rarely make contact with details about the sounds available in everyday life. Here, we …

Human language is unique in its structure: language is made up of parts that can be
recombined in a productive way. The parts are not given but have to be discovered by …

Sensory processing involves identification of stimulus features, but also integration with the
surrounding sensory and cognitive context. Previous work in animals and humans has …

Both adults and children have shown impressive cross-situational word learning in which
they leverage the statistics of word usage across many different scenes in order to isolate …

While the languages of the world differ in many respects, they share certain commonalties,
which can provide insight on our shared cognition. Here, we explore the learnability …