Do Infants Learn Words From Statistics? Evidence From English-Learning Infants Hearing Italian
Infants are sensitive to statistical regularities (i.e., transitional probabilities, or TPs) relevant to segmenting words in fluent speech. However, there is debate about whether tracking TPs results in representations of possible words. Infants show preferential learning of sequences with high TPs...
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
2018
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