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Rule Learning by Seven-Month-Old Infants

One learning mechanism that young infants can exploit is statistical in nature. […] For example, transitional probabilities - estimates of how likely one item it is to follow another.
It has been suggested that mechanisms that track statistical information […] may suffice for language learning. The alternative possibility considered here is that children might possess at least two learning mechanisms, one for learning statistical information and another one for learning “algebraic rules” - open-ended