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Prosodic cues enhance infants' sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities.
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- Second-Language Learning Facilitates Non-Adjacent Dependency Learning: Effects Moderated by Specific Language.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Neural Correlates of Linguistic and Prosodic Processing in Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) Learners.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Bilingual Exposure and Sex Shape Developmental Trajectories of Brain Responses to Speech-Sound Features in Infants.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact.Science advances · 2025Article
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- Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Functional reorganization of brain regions supporting artificial grammar learning across the first half year of life.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Towards a neurodevelopmental cognitive perspective of temporal processing.Communications biology · 2024Review
- Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds.Trends in neurosciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
In language, grammatical dependencies often hold between items that are not immediately adjacent to each other. Acquiring these nonadjacent dependencies is crucial for learning grammar. However, there are potentially infinitely many dependencies in the language input. How does the infant brain solve this computational learning problem? Here, we demonstrate that while rudimentary sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities may be present relatively early, robust and reliable learning can only be achieved when convergent statistical and perceptual, specifically prosodic cues, are both present, helping the infant brain detect the building blocks that form a nonadjacent dependency. This study contributes to our understanding of the neural foundations of rule learning that pave the way for language acquisition.
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