In a prior review, Perrruchet and Pacton (2006) noted that the literature on implicit learning
and the more recent studies on statistical learning focused on the same phenomena, namely …

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 …

Most current approaches to linguistic structure suggest that language is recursive, that
recursion is a fundamental property of grammar, and that independent performance …

Several phonological and prosodic properties of words have been shown to relate to
differences between grammatical categories. Distributional information about grammatical …

The poverty of stimulus argument is one of the most controversial arguments in the study of
language acquisition. Here we follow previous approaches challenging the assumption of …

In the absence of direct evidence of the emergence of language, the explicitness of formal
models which allow the exploration of interactions between multiple complex adaptive …

The present volume is the sixth in the series 'Trends in Language Acquisition
Research'(TiLAR). As an official publication of the International Association for the Study of …

Evidence from numerous studies using the visual world paradigm has revealed both that
spoken language can rapidly guide attention in a related visual scene and that scene …

When learning language, young children are faced with many seemingly formidable
challenges, including discovering words embedded in a continuous stream of sounds and …

Previous studies have indicated that dependencies between nonadjacent elements can be
acquired by statistical learning when each element predicts only one other element …