Infants Compute Statistics

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  • Categorization
    grouping together the same sounds, and distinguishing them from other sounds
    Phoneme
    the smallest unit of speech (a sound)
    Sensitive period
    a time in development when the brain is especially ready to learn a skill
    Speech perception
    listening to speech
    Speech production
    speaking
    Statistical learning
    computing how likely it is that certain events (in this case sounds or syllables) occur compared to others