EMPIRICAL STUDY Do Kindergarteners Develop Awareness of the Statistical Regularities They Acquire?

EMPIRICAL STUDY The Role of Awareness and Cognitive Aptitudes in L2 Predictive Language Processing

The Role of Age and Instruction in Children's Learning of Vocabulary and Grammar

It is generally assumed that children and adults learn language through fundamentally different mechanisms: Children predominantly rely on implicit learning, and adults utilize more explicit strategies (Lichtman, 2016). However, little is known about when and how learners begin to benefit from explicit instruction ov...

Implicit and explicit statistical learning in reading: Evidence from a randomized controlled-learning study and computational modeling.

A key challenge in reading acquisition is understanding how learners extract the complex probabilistic mappings between print, meaning, and sound. Statistical learning (SL) theory offers a mechanistic account of how such mappings are acquired, whether implicitly through exposure or explicitly through instruction. We co...

Large Language Models as Distributional Baselines for Language Tasks

The central contributions of this paper articulate the conditions under which distributional predictability threatens the internal validity of an experiment and provide concrete recommendations for how to control for this potential confound.

Why statistical learning researchers should study nonhuman animals.

Statistical learning (SL) - the ability to detect patterns in sensory input without explicit instruction - is crucial for building internal models of the environment. In humans, it notably supports language acquisition, including word segmentation and grammar learning. Evidence across primates, songbirds, rodents, and...

Inferential Comparison Between the Pretest and Posttest