2017
Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds
Bergelson E, Aslin RN. Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2017, 114: 12916-12921. PMID: 29158399, PMCID: PMC5724273, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712966114.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe Effect of Zipfian Frequency Variations on Category Formation in Adult Artificial Language Learning
Schuler KD, Reeder PA, Newport EL, Aslin RN. The Effect of Zipfian Frequency Variations on Category Formation in Adult Artificial Language Learning. Language Learning And Development 2017, 13: 357-374. PMID: 30405323, PMCID: PMC6217973, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2016.1263571.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchArtificial languageGrammatical categoriesNatural languageArtificial language learningDistributional informationLanguage learningHuman learnersDistributional learningIndividual wordsDistributional contextsFrequent wordsCategory formationLanguageCategory structureZipfian distributionWordsLearnersCertain contextsRecent researchContextLearningCuesCategoriesTaskCategorization
1989
The Language Environment of the Young Infant: Implications for Early Perceptual Development*
Cooper R, Aslin R. The Language Environment of the Young Infant: Implications for Early Perceptual Development*. Canadian Journal Of Psychology/Revue Canadienne De Psychologie 1989, 43: 247-265. PMID: 2486498, DOI: 10.1037/h0084216.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly auditory experienceAuditory experienceAuditory preferenceYoung infantsEarly perceptual developmentLater language developmentEarly language processingYoung infants' useFormation of preferencesPerceptual developmentInfant attentionAuditory eventsAuditory informationLanguage developmentInfants' useLanguage environmentLanguage processingRecent researchExperiencePotential implicationsImplicationsAttentionSpeechPreferencesSaliency