Statistical learning ability at 17 months relates to early reading skills via oral language

被引:1
作者
Monaghan, Padraic [1 ]
Jago, Lana S. [1 ,2 ]
Speyer, Lydia [1 ]
Turnbull, Heather [3 ]
Alcock, Katie J. [1 ]
Rowland, Caroline F. [3 ,4 ]
Cain, Kate [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YF, England
[2] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Liverpool L3 5AH, England
[3] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZX, England
[4] Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, NL-6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
Reading development; Early literacy; Oral language; Statistical learning; Artificial language learning; Non -adjacent dependencies; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; SIMPLE VIEW; VOCABULARY; ACQUISITION; SPEECH; WORDS; MODEL; DEPENDENCIES; CHILDREN; SCHOOL;
D O I
10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106002
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Statistical learning ability has been found to relate to children's reading skills. Yet, statistical learning is also known to be vital for developing oral language skills, and oral language and reading skills relate strongly. These connections raise the question of whether statistical learning ability affects reading via oral language or directly. Statistical learning is multifaceted, and so different aspects of statistical learning might influence oral language and reading skills distinctly. In a longitudinal study, we determined how two aspects of statistical learning from an artificial language tested on 70 17-month-old infants-segmenting sequences from speech and generalizing the sequence structure-related to oral language skills measured at 54 months and reading skills measured at approximately 75 months. Statistical learning segmentation did not relate significantly to oral language or reading, whereas statistical learning generalization related to oral language, but only indirectly related to reading. Our results showed that children's early statistical learning ability was associated with learning to read via the children's oral language skills. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/).
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