An increasingly influential attempt to provide a unified theory of the mind is grounded in the
notion of prediction. On this account, our minds are prediction engines, continuously …

One influential view of language acquisition is that children master structural generalizations
by making and learning from structure-informed predictions. Previous work has shown that …

Why are children's first utterances short and ungrammatical, with some obvious
constructions missing? What determines the lengthening of children's early utterances over …

Getting ahead: Prediction as a window into language, and language as a window into the
predictive brain Ge ing ahead Prediction as a window into language, and language as a …

Humans complete complex commonplace tasks, such as understanding sentences, with
striking speed and accuracy. This expertise is dependent on anticipation: predicting …

Prediction is posited to support fluent comprehension of speech—but how and when do
young listeners, who encounter unfamiliar and novel events with high frequency, learn to …

Recent demonstrations of statistical learning in infants have reinvigorated the innateness
versus learning debate in language acquisition. This article addresses these issues from …

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the possible role played by statistical
learning—the detection of patterns in the environment—in the acquisition of language. This …

The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

While we have a good understanding of how prediction is implicated in processing
utterances in a second language, the idea that prediction may also be implicated in learning …