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Misyak, Jennifer (2010) On-line individual differences in statistical learning predict language processing. Frontiers in psychology, Volume 1 (Number 31). pp. 1-9. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00031 ISSN 1664-1078.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00031
Abstract
Considerable individual differences in language ability exist among normally developing children and adults. Whereas past research have attributed such differences to variations in verbal working memory or experience with language, we test the hypothesis that individual differences in statistical learning may be associated with differential language performance. We employ a novel paradigm for studying statistical learning on-line, combining a serial-reaction time task with artificial grammar learning. This task offers insights into both the timecourse of and individual differences in statistical learning. Experiment 1 charts the micro-level trajectory for statistical learning of nonadjacent dependencies and provides an on-line index of individual differences therein. In Experiment 2, these differences are then shown to predict variations in participants’ on-line processing of long-distance dependencies involving center-embedded relative clauses. The findings suggest that individual differences in the ability to learn from experience through statistical learning may contribute to variations in linguistic performance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Relative clauses | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Frontiers in psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1664-1078 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 14 September 2010 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 1 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 31 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-9 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00031 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 December 2015 | ||||||||
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