2017
Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions
Reeder PA, Newport EL, Aslin RN. Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions. Journal Of Memory And Language 2017, 97: 17-29. PMID: 29456288, PMCID: PMC5810951, DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.07.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDistributional cuesCategory acquisitionComplex linguistic structuresDistributional informationDistributional learning mechanismBody of workLanguage acquisitionLinguistic structureLexical itemsDistributional learningSyntactic contextArtificial grammarLearnersAcquisitionGrammarCategory generalizationLearning mechanismContextWorkLearningCuesResearchersRecent interest
1996
Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues
Saffran J, Newport E, Aslin R. Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues. Journal Of Memory And Language 1996, 35: 606-621. DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1996.0032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDistributional cuesWord boundariesProsodic cuesWord segmentationTransitional probabilitiesContinuous speech streamFirst taskLanguage learnersLanguage acquisitionArtificial languageLanguage inputSpeech streamOnly cueCuesLanguageLearnersLearning problemWordsRelative strengthSyllablesTaskBoundariesAdultsSoundAcquisition