Statistical learning abilities and their relation to language.
Numerous studies on statistical learning (SL) have demonstrated humans' sensitivity to complex statistical properties in their sensory environment. These observations have had a profound impact on the study of language, highlighting statistical aspects of the linguistic input that can be learned fro...
| Publicado en: | Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2020
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