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The 12 pages that link to Statistical learning, each with the reason it gives.

• Language acquisitionRelated: Infants can use distributional patterns in speech to find likely word boundaries.

• ConnectionismRelated: Connectionist models made statistical learning a central account of cognitive skill acquisition.

• Universal grammarCompared with: It offers an input-sensitive learning mechanism that may reduce the need for rich innate grammar.

• PsycholinguisticsRelated: It offers a mechanism for learning word boundaries and linguistic regularities from input.

• Usage-based linguisticsRelated: Sensitivity to recurring patterns helps explain how speakers extract structure from language exposure.

• Critical period hypothesisRelated: It offers a learning mechanism that can operate in infancy and across development.

• NativismCompared with: It offers an experience-based mechanism that can explain some learning without rich innate content.

• Specific language impairmentRelated: Researchers investigate whether reduced pattern learning contributes to language acquisition difficulties.

• First languageRelated: Infants use recurring sound patterns to infer likely word boundaries.

• Phonological developmentRelated: Researchers investigate how sensitivity to sound regularities supports phonological learning.

• Bouba–kiki effectRelated: Exposure to language and objects could shape sound–shape expectations without explicit instruction.

• Language (cognitive faculty)Related: Learners can use distributional patterns in speech to discover linguistic structure.