From Syllables to Syntax: Multilevel Statistical Learning by 12-Month-Old Infants

By Jenny R. Saffran, Diana P. Wilson. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Statistical Language Learning (2003, background): “This would not be possible if the infants formed mental representations only of the sequential probabilities relating individual syllables, and no word-level representations (Saffran & Wilson, 2003).”
Hierarchical models of behavior and prefrontal function. (2008, background): “In particular, a renewed focus on hierarchical structure in behavior has appeared in cognitive psychology [3,4], developmental psychology [ 5 ,6] ,n europsychology [7] and, perhaps most strikingly, neuroscience [8,9].”
Learning to Learn: Infants’ Acquisition of Stress-Based Strategies for Word Segmentation (2007, background): “This type of multilevel learning could be important for many aspects of language acquisition, not just word learning (e.g., Saffran & Wilson, 2003).”
Putting Education in “Educational” Apps (2015, background): “And while the evidence that infants use statistical reasoning across a variety of domains is clear (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996; Saffran & Wilson, 2003; L. Smith & Yu, 2008; Xu & Garcia, 2008; Yu & Smith, 2007; Yurovsky, Yu, & Smith, 2012), other research has shown that when social cues are…”
Music and Language: A Developmental Comparison (2004, background): “In a recent experiment, Saffran and Wilson (2003) exposed 12-month-old infants to a finite-state artificial grammar, presented in sets of fluent sentences, where the only cues to word boundaries were statistical.”
Implicit learning and statistical learning: one phenomenon, two approaches. (2006, background): “[14, 15 ]) as well as for visual scenes (e.g.”
Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: A reinforcement-learning perspective (2008, background): “…behavior and its neural foundations: ... Cognition (2008), doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.011 sitive to the structure underlying repeating and systematically varying event sequences (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996), a point that extends to hierarchical structure (Saffran & Wilson, 2003).”
Can prosody be used to discover hierarchical structure in continuous speech (2012, background): “This led Saffran and Wilson (2003) to investigate whether 12month-old infants can engage into two statistical learning tasks to discover simple multi-level structure in the speech stream.”
Sources of Variability in Children’s Language Growth (2010, background): “It has been established that infants under one year of age can use the transitional probabilities of adjacent syllables to locate word boundaries (e.g., Aslin, Saffran, and Newport, 1999; Gomez and Gerkin, 1999; Saffran and Wilson, 2003).”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, background): “A number of recent experimental studies (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996; Saffran, Johnson, Aslin, & Newport, 1999; Saffran & Wilson, 2003) show that both infants and adults track co-occurrence patterns and statistical regularities in artificial grammars.”
Toddlers encode similarities among novel words from meaningful sentences. (2015, unknown): “Indeed, even much younger infants are highly skilled at learning co-occurrences from meaningless streams of syllables (e.g., Saffran & Wilson, 2003; see Gómez & Gerken, 2000, for a review).”
Statistical Learning and Language: An Individual Differences Study (2012, background): “…lexical, and syntactic), across concurrent levels (e.g., the simultaneous statistical learning of lexical units and syntactic phrase structure; Saffran & Wilson, 2003), and between levels (e.g., in facilitating the mapping of subsequent lexical meanings to nonwords from a statistically…”
The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “Or subtly alter complex statistical patterns that we have just learned (Saffran & Wilson, 2003).”