Incidental language learning: listening (and learning) out of the corner of your ear
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Two experiments on incidental language learning were conducted to investigate the performance of first grade children and adults on an incidental language learning task. Incidental learning is a phenomenon that could play a role in natural language acquisition. Results reveal that the subjects learned about the words of the artificial language even in the absence of any directions to listen to the speech stream. Furthermore, statistical learning mechanism wasfound to operate in children as well as in adults.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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When learners surpass their models: the acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input
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A study is conducted to examine Simon, a deaf child's, performance at age 7 on an American Sign Language morphology task, compared with eight children who have native signing parents. The findings indicate that Simon is capable of acquiring a regular and orderly morphological rule system for which his input provides only highly inconsistent and noisy data.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2004
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Learning at a distance I. statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies
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The study examines whether a statistical learning mechanism operates with regard to non-adjacent dependencies. Studies conducted suggest that statistical learning is not limited to computations on adjacent sound sequences.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2004
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