Statistical learning, Extracts regularities from sensory input, including recurring patterns in speech., Transitional probabilities, Help infants identify which syllables recurrently go together and which may mark word boundaries., Prosody, Uses stress, pauses, pitch and lengthening as cues to segment and interpret speech., Joint attention, Helps children follow another person's gaze or pointing gesture towards what is being discussed., Cross-situational statistics, Helps learners reduce ambiguity by tracking word-referent co-occurrences across different situations., Sentential complements, Help children learn mental-state and communication verbs and can support theory of mind., Theory of mind, Helps children exploit other people's intentions, knowledge and beliefs when learning word meanings., Cues from language itself, Helps children infer meanings from sentence structure and known words.

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