OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis to characterize differences in language ability
between children born very preterm (VPT,< 32 weeks' gestational age), with a very low birth …

Infants learn the forms of words by listening to the speech they hear. Though little is known
about the degree to which these forms are meaningful for young infants, the words still play …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

Individuals of all ages extract structure from the sequences of patterns they encounter in
their environment, an ability that is at the very heart of cognition. Exactly what underlies this …

Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning
phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore …

The idea of a biologically evolved, universal grammar with linguistic content is a myth,
perpetuated by three spurious explanatory strategies of generative linguists. To make …

In this article, we hypothesize that invariance detection, a general perceptual phenomenon
whereby organisms attend to relatively stable patterns or regularities, is an important means …

Infants have been described as 'statistical learners' capable of extracting structure (such as
words) from patterned input (such as language). Here, we investigated whether prior …

This work reviews a number of existing computational studies concentrated on the question
of how spoken language can be learned from continuous speech in the absence of …

To what extent do complex phonological patterns require the postulation of universal
mechanisms specific to language? In this volume, we explore the Emergent Hypothesis, that …