Testing the Role of Statistical Learning in Infant Language Development

该项目将通过以下几个方面来检验这一假设，即婴儿跟踪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性的作用：1)制定适合一岁及以下婴儿的统计学习评估及其在早期语言发展中的作用；2)完善这些评估中的学习测量；以及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.