Pauses matter: Rule-learning in children

Pauses matter: Rule-learning in children

Language learners have to both segment words and discover grammatical rules connecting those words in sentences. In adult listeners, the presence of a prosodic cue in the speech stream, for example, a pause, appears to facilitate rule-learning of non-adjacent dependencies of the form AiXCi (Peña et...

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Main Authors: Anika van der Klis, Clara Cecilia Levelt, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Rianne van Lieburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service 2023-03-01
Series:Language Development Research
Subjects:
school-aged children
prosody
non-adjacent dependencies
statistical learning
language acquisition
artificial grammar learning
Online Access:https://lps.library.cmu.edu/LDR/article/id/466/

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