Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Learning new words does not only require infants to find words in continuous speech, but also be remember recentlysegmented words and link them to meaning. Prior research has shown that statistical learning supports word learning.However, as infant statistical learning was typically tested immediately after familiarization with a speech stream, weknow very little about whether infants experience with statistical regularities supports long-term memory and future wordlearning. The current study was designed to shed light on the relationship between statistical learning, word learning, andmemory. We found that while both co-occurrence statistics and syllable frequency information support word learning inthe moment, co-occurrence information alone supports long-term memory for recently segmented candidate object labels.