Babies learn statistics (Saffran, Aslin, and Newport).

• Eight-month-olds were presented with 2-minute-long strings of syllables consisting of 4 3-syllable "words" concatenated in random order.

  bi da ku pa do ti go la bu bi da ku go la bu pa do ti tu pi ro ...

• Tested later on 3-syllable words or non-words, the babies clearly distinguished the 2 categories (they showed a preference for the non-words).

  go la bu -> YES
  bi da ku -> YES
  ku pa do -> NO
  ti tu pi -> NO