Statistical Learning Abilities and Language Acquisition
Keywords:
Statistical learning, distributional information, sensory environment, word class categories, behavioral evidence, transitional probabilitiesAbstract
Humans’ high sensitivity to the structure in their environment is explained as statistical learning. During the past few decades, there have been many discussions on how humanity, including infants, use their ability to extract the structure in their surrounding which is often referred as statistical learning and how it can impact language acquisition. This article aims at investigating the way humans acquire regularities along with different levels of language and integrate them into different situations. Current directions in linguistics require to study statistical learning within a context, first observing within language comparing it within the infant learner and within the whole environment.
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