Use of distributional information in acquiring speech-sound distinctions, recurring units, dependencies or word–referent correspondences. These levels require different statistics, and success at one does not show that the complete natural-language acquisition problem has been solved.
Learning a relation between elements separated by intervening material. In an artificial system, increasing variability in can help expose the stable – relation. Such a relation need not be hierarchical syntax.[ref]
Variability and detection of invariant structure by Rebecca L. Gómez. Psychological Science 13, 431–436; three-element artificial-language strings, middle-element variability and nonadjacent dependencies
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