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 …

Implicit learning and statistical learning are two contemporary approaches to the long‐
standing question in psychology and cognitive science of how organisms pick up on …

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 …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

The domain-general learning mechanisms elicited in incidental learning situations are of
potential interest in many research fields, including language acquisition, object knowledge …

Statistical Learning (SL) is typically considered to be a domain-general mechanism by which
cognitive systems discover the underlying statistical regularities in the input. Recent findings …

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 …

The domain of syntax is seen as the core of the language faculty and as the most critical
difference between animal vocalizations and language. We review evidence from …

In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only
the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is …