Does Grammar Constrain Statistical Learning? Commentary on Bonatti, Pefia, Nespor, and Mehler (2005)

A commentary on an article by L. L. Bonatti et al. that appeared in Psychological Science, vol. 16, 2005, pp. 451–459. In their article, Bonatti et al. offer evidence that statistical learning, which plays a key role in language acquisition, is guided by innate grammatical knowledge. The writers c...

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Published in:	Psychological Science. Vol. 18; no. 10; pp. 922 - 923
Main Authors:	Keidel, James L., Jenison, Rick L., Kluender, Keith R., Seidenberg, Mark S.
Format:	Article
Published:	HWW Temp October 2007
Subjects:	Consonants Vowels Speech perception
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	A commentary on an article by L. L. Bonatti et al. that appeared in Psychological Science, vol. 16, 2005, pp. 451–459. In their article, Bonatti et al. offer evidence that statistical learning, which plays a key role in language acquisition, is guided by innate grammatical knowledge. The writers contend that Bonatti and colleagues' findings may have resulted from facts about French that can be learned from experience.