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Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities
In language, grammatical dependencies often hold between items that are not immediately adjacent to each other. Acquiring these nonadjacent dependencies is crucial for learning grammar. However, there are potentially infinitely many dependencies in the language input. How does the infant brain solve...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37043570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade4083 |
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author | Martinez-Alvarez, Anna Gervain, Judit Koulaguina, Elena Pons, Ferran de Diego-Balaguer, Ruth |
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description | In language, grammatical dependencies often hold between items that are not immediately adjacent to each other. Acquiring these nonadjacent dependencies is crucial for learning grammar. However, there are potentially infinitely many dependencies in the language input. How does the infant brain solve this computational learning problem? Here, we demonstrate that while rudimentary sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities may be present relatively early, robust and reliable learning can only be achieved when convergent statistical and perceptual, specifically prosodic cues, are both present, helping the infant brain detect the building blocks that form a nonadjacent dependency. This study contributes to our understanding of the neural foundations of rule learning that pave the way for language acquisition. |
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spelling | pubmed-100965732023-04-13 Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities Martinez-Alvarez, Anna Gervain, Judit Koulaguina, Elena Pons, Ferran de Diego-Balaguer, Ruth Sci Adv Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences In language, grammatical dependencies often hold between items that are not immediately adjacent to each other. Acquiring these nonadjacent dependencies is crucial for learning grammar. However, there are potentially infinitely many dependencies in the language input. How does the infant brain solve this computational learning problem? Here, we demonstrate that while rudimentary sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities may be present relatively early, robust and reliable learning can only be achieved when convergent statistical and perceptual, specifically prosodic cues, are both present, helping the infant brain detect the building blocks that form a nonadjacent dependency. This study contributes to our understanding of the neural foundations of rule learning that pave the way for language acquisition. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10096573/ /pubmed/37043570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade4083 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences Martinez-Alvarez, Anna Gervain, Judit Koulaguina, Elena Pons, Ferran de Diego-Balaguer, Ruth Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
title | Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
title_full | Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
title_fullStr | Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
title_full_unstemmed | Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
title_short | Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
title_sort | prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities |
topic | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37043570 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade4083 |
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