Front matter -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Statistical learning and language acquisition / Rebuschat, Patrick / Williams, John -- Statistical-sequential learning in development / Misyak, Jennifer B. / Goldstein, Michael H. / Christiansen, Morten H. -- Bootstrapping language: Are infant statisticians up to the job? / Johnson, Elizabeth K. -- Sensitivity to statistical information begets learning in early language development / Hay, Jessica F. / Lany, Jill -- Word segmentation: Trading the (new, but poor) concept of statistical computation for the (old, but richer) associative approach / Perruchet, Pierre / Poulin-Charronnat, Bénédicte -- The road to word class acquisition is paved with distributional and sound cues / Sandoval, Michelle / Gonzales, Kalim / Gómez, Rebecca -- Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition / Shukla, Mohinish / Gervain, Judit / Mehler, Jacques / Nespor, Marina -- The potential contribution of statistical learning to second language acquisition / Onnis, Luca -- Statistical learning and syntax: What can be learned, and what difference does meaning make? / Williams, John N. / Rebuschat, Patrick -- Statistical construction learning: Does a Zipfian problem space ensure robust language learning? / Ellis, Nick C. / O'Donnell, Matthew Brook -- Can we enhance domain-general learning abilities to improve language function? / Conway, Christopher M. / Gremp, Michelle A. / Walk, Anne D. / Bauernschmidt, Althea / Pisoni, David B. -- Conscious versus unconscious learning of structure / Dienes, Zoltan -- How implicit is statistical learning? / Hamrick, Phillip / Rebuschat, Patrick -- What Bayesian modelling can tell us about statistical learning: What it requires and why it works / Perfors, Amy / Navarro, Daniel J. -- Evolutionary perspectives on statistical learning / Smith, Kenny -- Statistical learning: What can music tell us? / Loui, Psyche -- ''I let the music speak'': Cross-domain application of a cognitive model of musical learning / Wiggins, Geraint A. -- Index |