Study Campus life About us Research Alumni & giving News & opinion / / / / / News_ Pattern learning key to children's language development 27 April 2016 Study questions historical theories of language acquisition Share A new study reveals children's language development is a learnt skill and is intricately linked to their ability to recognise patterns in their environment. “Unbeknownst to children themselves their brains are constantly computing these patterns or statistics – for example which words co-occur regularly, which words follow others..." Joanne Arciuli Conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney and Australian National University, the study found children who were better at identifying patterns in non-verbal tasks also had better knowledge of grammar. Even when other
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