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Chen, Chi-hsin; Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Wu, Chih-Yi; Cheung, Hintat; Yu, Chen – Cognitive Science, 2017
Two experiments were conducted to examine adult learners' ability to extract multiple statistics in simultaneously presented visual and auditory input. Experiment 1 used a cross-situational learning paradigm to test whether English speakers were able to use co-occurrences to learn word-to-object mappings and concurrently form object categories…
Descriptors: English, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning
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Potter, Christine E.; Wang, Tianlin; Saffran, Jenny R. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Recent research has begun to explore individual differences in statistical learning, and how those differences may be related to other cognitive abilities, particularly their effects on language learning. In this research, we explored a different type of relationship between language learning and statistical learning: the possibility that learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Mandarin Chinese, Control Groups