Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible new directions.

R Frost, BC Armstrong, MH Christiansen - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

Statistical learning of language: A meta‐analysis into 25 years of research

ES Isbilen, MH Christiansen - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical learning is a key concept in our understanding of language acquisition. Ample
work has highlighted its role in numerous linguistic functions—yet statistical learning is not a …

[HTML][HTML] No statistical learning advantage in children over adults: Evidence from behaviour and neural entrainment

CN Moreau, MF Joanisse, J Mulgrew… - Developmental cognitive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Explicit recognition measures of statistical learning (SL) suggest that children and adults
have similar linguistic SL abilities. However, explicit tasks recruit additional cognitive …

The effect of children's prior knowledge and language abilities on their statistical learning

K Stärk, E Kidd, RLA Frost - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Statistical learning (SL) is assumed to lead to long-term memory representations. However,
the way that those representations influence future learning remains largely unknown. We …

Danish as a window onto language processing and learning

F Trecca, K Tylén, A Højen… - Language …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is often assumed that all languages are fundamentally the same. This assumption has
been challenged by research in linguistic typology and language evolution, but questions of …

Infant‐directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions: Evidence from Danish

C Cox, C Dideriksen, T Keren‐Portnoy… - Child …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study compared the acoustic properties of 26 (100% female, 100% monolingual)
Danish caregivers' spontaneous speech addressed to their 11‐to 24‐month‐old infants …

Statistical learning for non-social and socially-meaningful stimuli in individuals with high and low levels of autistic traits

X Li, X Bai, CM Conway, W Shi, X Wang - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with weaknesses in social communication
and interaction but potential strengths in perceptual processing of non-social stimuli. It is …

What's surprising about surprisal

S Slaats, AE Martin - 2023 - osf.io
In the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind
syntactic structure building (combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of …

The influence of language-specific properties on the role of consonants and vowels in a statistical learning task of an artificial language: A cross-linguistic comparison

Y Lador-Weizman, A Deutsch - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The contribution of consonants and vowels in spoken word processing has been widely
investigated, and studies have found a phenomenon of a Consonantal bias (C-bias) …

Dissociation between linguistic and nonlinguistic statistical learning in children with autism

A Hu, V Kozloff, A Owen Van Horne… - Journal of autism and …, 2024 - Springer
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to detect and extract regularities from inputs, is
considered a domain-general building block for typical language development. We …