Language learning depends on a combination of both experience-independent (implicit) and experience-dependent learning mechanisms. According to dominant theories of experience-independent language ...

Human language is unique in its structure: language is made up of parts that can be recombined in a productive way. The parts are not given but have to be discovered by learners exposed to unsegmented ...

A team at the University of Rochester has found that the human brain makes much more extensive use of highly complex statistics when learning a language than scientists ever realized. The research, ...

Across modern data-intensive disciplines, the union of numerical computation, statistics, and machine learning has become ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...