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  • Understanding how children learn to read is crucial for educational development.
  • Morpheme identification is a key component of reading proficiency.
  • The role of visual statistical learning in acquiring morpho-orthographic knowledge is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of visual statistical learning in children's ability to identify morphemes.
  • To determine if children can learn morpho-orthographic patterns from statistical regularities in visual input.
  • To explore the developmental trajectory of this learning mechanism.

Main Methods:

  • 121 children (aged 6-11) were familiarized with pseudo-letter strings containing statistical regularities indicating affix-like chunks.
  • Children passively observed stimuli and were later tested on their ability to recognize familiarized strings.
  • Statistical properties of chunks, not their meaning, were the primary cues for identification.

Main Results:

  • Children were more likely to recognize previously unseen strings containing familiar chunks, irrespective of chunk position.
  • This ability to acquire morpho-orthographic knowledge through visual regularities was evident across the age range studied.
  • No significant modulation by age or reading fluency was observed, suggesting an early-maturing mechanism.

Conclusions:

  • Visual statistical learning is an effective mechanism for acquiring morpho-orthographic knowledge in developing readers.
  • This language-agnostic learning ability appears to be fundamental and present early in development.
  • Findings support the integration of visual statistical learning into theories of reading and morphology acquisition.