Statistical learning and language acquisition / edited by Patrick Rebuschat, John N. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume brings together contributors from cognitive psychology, theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as computer science, in order to assess the progress and future directions of statistical learning research."--Back cover.

Statistical-sequential learning in development / Jennifer B. Misyak, Michael H. Goldstein and Morten H. Christiansen -- Bootstrapping language : are infant statisticians up to the job? / Elizabeth K. Johnson -- Sensitivity to statistical information begets learning in early language development / Jessica F. Hay and Jill Lany -- Word segmentation : trading the (new, but poor) concept of statistical computation for the (old, but richer) associative approach / Pierre Perruchet and Bé́nédicte Poulin-Charronnat -- The road to word class acquisition is paved with distributional and sound cues / Michelle Sandoval, Kalim Gonzales and Rebecca Gómez -- Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition / Mohinish Shukla, Judit Gervain, Jacques Mehler and Marina Nespor -- The potential contribution of statistical learning to second language acquisition / Luca Onnis -- Statistical learning and syntax : what can be learned, and what difference does meaning make? / John N. Williams and Patrick Rebuschat -- Statistical construction learning : does a Zipfian problem space ensure robust language learning? / Nick C. Ellis and Matthew Brook O'Donnell -- Can we enhance domain-general learning abilities to improve language function? / Christopher M. Conway, Michelle A. Gremp, Anne de Walk, Althea Bauernschmidt and David B. Pisoni -- Conscious versus unconscious learning of structure / Zoltan Dienes -- How implicit is statistical learning? / Phillip Hamrick and Patrick Rebuschat -- What Bayesian modelling can tell us about statistical learning : what it requires and why it works / Amy Perfors and Daniel J. Navarro -- Evolutionary perspectives on statistical learning / Kenny Smith -- Statistical learning : what can music tell us? / Psyche Loui -- "I let the music speak" : cross-domain application of a cognitive model of musical learning / Geraint A. Wiggins.