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The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review
The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages. This type of account can predict variability in language development measures as arising from individual differences in extracting this...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10405008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18693 |
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author | Abreu, Regina Postarnak, Svetlana Vulchanov, Valentin Baggio, Giosuè Vulchanova, Mila |
author_facet | Abreu, Regina Postarnak, Svetlana Vulchanov, Valentin Baggio, Giosuè Vulchanova, Mila |
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description | The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages. This type of account can predict variability in language development measures as arising from individual differences in extracting this statistical information. Given that statistical learning has been attested across different domains and modalities, a central question is which modality is more tightly yoked with language skills. The results of a scoping review, which aimed for the first time at identifying the evidence of the association between statistical learning skills and language outcomes in typically developing infants and children, provide preliminary support for the statistical learning account of language acquisition, mostly in the domain of lexical outcomes, indicating that typically developing infants and children with stronger auditory and audio-visual statistical learning skills perform better on lexical competence tasks. The results also suggest that the relevance of statistical learning skills for language development is dependent on sensory modality. |
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spelling | pubmed-104050082023-08-08 The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review Abreu, Regina Postarnak, Svetlana Vulchanov, Valentin Baggio, Giosuè Vulchanova, Mila Heliyon Review Article The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages. This type of account can predict variability in language development measures as arising from individual differences in extracting this statistical information. Given that statistical learning has been attested across different domains and modalities, a central question is which modality is more tightly yoked with language skills. The results of a scoping review, which aimed for the first time at identifying the evidence of the association between statistical learning skills and language outcomes in typically developing infants and children, provide preliminary support for the statistical learning account of language acquisition, mostly in the domain of lexical outcomes, indicating that typically developing infants and children with stronger auditory and audio-visual statistical learning skills perform better on lexical competence tasks. The results also suggest that the relevance of statistical learning skills for language development is dependent on sensory modality. Elsevier 2023-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10405008/ /pubmed/37554804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18693 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Article Abreu, Regina Postarnak, Svetlana Vulchanov, Valentin Baggio, Giosuè Vulchanova, Mila The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review |
title | The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review |
title_full | The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review |
title_fullStr | The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review |
title_full_unstemmed | The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review |
title_short | The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review |
title_sort | association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: a scoping review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10405008/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18693 |
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