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Lew-Williams, Casey; Saffran, Jenny R. – Cognition, 2012
Infants have been described as "statistical learners" capable of extracting structure (such as words) from patterned input (such as language). Here, we investigated whether prior knowledge influences how infants track transitional probabilities in word segmentation tasks. Are infants biased by prior experience when engaging in sequential…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Prior Learning

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