Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code

PK Kuhl - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

Awareness and second language acquisition

R Schmidt - Annual review of applied linguistics, 1992 - cambridge.org
One very active research tradition in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) attempts
to establish causal relationships between environmental factors and learning. These include …

[图书][B] Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

MH Christiansen, N Chater - 2018 - books.google.com
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 …

[图书][B] Music, language, and the brain

AD Patel - 2010 - books.google.com
In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

The structural sources of verb meanings

L Gleitman - Language acquisition, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
If we will observe how children learn languages, we will find that, to make them understand
what the names of simple ideas or substances stand for, people ordinarily show them the …

[引用][C] Consciousness and foreign language learning: A tutorial on the role of attention and awareness in learning

R Schmidt - Attention and awareness in foreign language …, 1995 - books.google.com
ABSTRACT A number of issues concerning the role of consciousness in foreign language
learning are identified, defined, and shown to be essentially the same as issues that have …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults

JR Saffran, EK Johnson, RN Aslin, EL Newport - Cognition, 1999 - Elsevier
Previous research suggests that language learners can detect and use the statistical
properties of syllable sequences to discover words in continuous speech (eg Aslin, RN …

Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants

RN Aslin, JR Saffran, EL Newport - Psychological science, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
A recent report demonstrated that 8-month-olds can segment a continuous stream of speech
syllables, containing no acoustic or prosodic cues to word boundaries, into wordlike units …

Language as shaped by the brain

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2008 - cambridge.org
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 …

Statistical learning and language acquisition

AR Romberg, JR Saffran - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Human learners, including infants, are highly sensitive to structure in their environment.
Statistical learning refers to the process of extracting this structure. A major question in …