Early developing syntactic knowledge influences sequential statistical learning in infancy

• Main Authors: Thiessen, Erik D., Onnis, Luca, Hong, Soo-Jong, Lee, Kyung-Sook
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Statistical Learning; Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151425
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Adults’ linguistic background influences their sequential statistical learning of an artificial language characterized by conflicting forward-going and backward-going transitional probabilities. English-speaking adults favor backward-going transitional probabilities, consistent with the head-initial...