Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23313009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Saffran (0000-0003-3749-8773, University of Rochester), Jenny R Saffran (University of Rochester), Richard N Aslin (University of Rochester), Richard Ν Aslin (0000-0003-4092-1712, University of Rochester), Elissa L Newport (0000-0002-2783-5062, University of Rochester) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 274 |
| Issue | 5294 |
| Pages | 1926-1928 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511 |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.274.5294.1926 |
| PMID | 8943209 |
| OpenAlex | W1980862600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 797 |
| References cited | 13 |
Learners rely on a combination of experience-independent and experience-dependent mechanisms to extract information from the environment. Language acquisition involves both types of mechanisms, but most theorists emphasize the relative importance of experience-independent mechanisms. The present study shows that a fundamental task of language acquisition, segmentation of words from fluent speech, can be accomplished by 8-month-old infants based solely on the statistical relationships between neighboring speech sounds. Moreover, this word segmentation was based on statistical learning from only 2 minutes of exposure, suggesting that infants have access to a powerful mechanism for the computation of statistical properties of the language input.
Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Language acquisition · Language development · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Mechanism (biology) · Natural language processing · Segmentation · Speech recognition · Speech segmentation · Statistical analysis · Statistical Learning · Statistics · Task (project management) · Text segmentation · Word (group theory) · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Psychology
Truth, Language, and History
Frequency in Language
The Acquisition of Creole Languages
Implicações dos mecanismos de recompensa e cognição implícita na formação de expectativas e manutenção do caráter funcional da música tonal
The Folly of Trying to Define Truth
Locating Literary Language
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
Plato's Philosopher
Method and Metaphysics
Seeing Through Language
Implicit Learning in Second Language Acquisition
Nouvelles technologies et standards méthodologiques en linguistique
What Matters in Artificial Learning, Sonority Hierarchy or Natural Classes
Learning Parametric Stress without Domain-Specific Mechanisms
The Role of a Domain-specific Language Mechanism in Learning Natural and Unnatural Stress
Empirical foundations for an integrated study of language evolution
O Que Está Escrito Aqui? Redescobrindo a Gramática Nos Caminhos Para a Leitura
On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences
Similar paths for dissimilar structures
Mikołaj Kruszewski
The Scope of Usage-Based Theory
The role of language in emotion
Some Aspects of Pedagogical Corpora
Primir
Regularizing Unpredictable Variation
Finding patterns in emotional information
Language Development of Children Raised in Institutional Settings
Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics
Modelling the Internal Generation of Rhythm as an Extension of Nonlinear Psychophysics
Learning argument structure generalizations
Extracting prototypes from exemplars What can corpus data tell us about concept representation
The nature of generalization in language
Judgment of Covariation
Reading the written language environment
Implicative organization facilitates morphological learning
Children’s Unnatural Phonology
Markedness
Constructional Fast Mapping
Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories
Adult reformulations of child errors as negative evidence
Perspective-shifts in event descriptions in Tamil child language
Young children's expectation of competence in word learning
Progress, but not a full solution to the logical problem of language acquisition
Bilingual signed and spoken language acquisition from birth
A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology
Frequency Effects in Language Processing
Early childhood language development
Searching for arguments to support linguistic nativism
Merging information in speech recognition
Understanding and sharing intentions
Pilk laste keeleomandamisele. Teoreetilistest alustest ja kvantitatiivsetest lähenemistest
Statistika koht keelemudelis
Psicolinguística e Modelos Baseados no Uso
Conhecimento fonológico em crianças com desenvolvimento típico
The impact of conditioning variables on the acquisition of variation in adult and child learners
Not compelling
The evolution of medial /t/ over real and remembered time
Focus on facts not fiction
Autism, constructionism, and nativism
Error and expectation in language learning
No integration without structured representations
Perceiving, remembering, and communicating structure in events.
Implicit Learning of Written Regularities and Its Relation to Literacy Acquisition in a Shallow Orthography
The Acquisition of Morphophonology
From needs to goals and representations
Robust speech perception
Do humans have two systems to track beliefs and belief-like states?
Meta-analytic review of the development of face discrimination in infancy
Statistical learning research
Duplications and domain-generality
The extraction and integration framework
Theories of artificial grammar learning
Toward a sociocognitive approach to second Llanguage acquisition
Language learning from the perspective of nonlinear dynamic systems
Connectionist approaches to language learning
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia
App-based morphological training produces lasting effects on word knowledge in primary school children
A Novel Theoretical Life Course Framework for Triggering Cognitive Development across the Lifespan
Spanish Rhotics
Statistical treatment of looking-time data
Action type and goal type modulate goal-directed gaze shifts in 14-month-old infants
Listening through voices
Infants’ generalizations about other people’s emotions
Statistical learning in reading
The early development of object knowledge
Action at its place
A changing role for transitional probabilities in word learning during the transition to toddlerhood
Early developments in the ability to understand the relation between stimulus and reward
Word learning in children with autism spectrum disorders
The co-development of looking dynamics and discrimination performance
Twelve to 24-month-olds can understand the meaning of morphological regularities in their language
Developing knowledge of nonadjacent dependencies
Infants’ learning of novel words in a stochastic environment
Infants’ selective use of reliable cues in multidimensional language input
Emotion words, emotion concepts, and emotional development in children
Probability versus representativeness in infancy
Learning about causes from people
Top-down influence in young children's linguistic ambiguity resolution
Implicit statistical learning is directly associated with the acquisition of syntax
Goal certainty modulates infants’ goal-directed gaze shifts
Rules and representations
Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech
The predominance of strong initial syllables in the English vocabulary
Linguistic Experience Alters Phonetic Perception in Infants by 6 Months of Age
The language bioprogram hypothesis
The Modularity of Mind
Cognition and the Development of Language
An Invitation to Cognitive Science
Word Segmentation
From Phoneme to Morpheme
| Unique citing works | 797 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 16,6 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2026 (49) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 681 |