Testing the Role of Statistical Learning in Infant Language Development

该项目将通过以下方式来检验婴儿追踪他们所听到的语言中的统计数据的能力在他们的语言发展中起着基础作用的假设：1)开发适合一岁及一岁以下婴儿的统计学习及其在早期语言发展中的作用的评估；2)改进这些评估中捕获的学习方法；3)使用这些测量来测试统计学习中的个体差异是否与第二年的真实语言发展有关。

This project will test the hypothesis that infants' ability to track statistics in the speech they hear plays a foundational role in their language development by: 1) developing assessments of statistical learning and its role in early language development that are suitable for infants at and under one year of age; 2) refining the measures of learning that are captured in these assessments; and 3) using these measures to test whether individual differences in statistical learning are related to real-world language development across the second year.