Statistical learning

Large Language Models Demonstrate the Potential of Statistical Learning in Language

To what degree can language be acquired from linguistic input alone? This question has vexed scholars for millennia and is still a major focus of debate in the cognitive science of language. The complexity of human language has hampered progress …

Statistical learning or phonological universals? Ambient language statistics guide consonant acquisition in four languages

What predicts individual differences in children’s acquisition of consonant production across languages? Considerations of children’s development of early speech production have traditionally emphasized inherent physiological constraints of the vocal …