Frontmatter -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Statistical learning and language acquisition -- Statistical-sequential learning in development -- Bootstrapping language: Are infant statisticians up to the job? -- Sensitivity to statistical information begets learning in early language development -- Word segmentation: Trading the (new, but poor) concept of statistical computation for the (old, but richer) associative approach -- The road to word class acquisition is paved with distributional and sound cues -- Linguistic constraints on statistical learning in early language acquisition -- The potential contribution of statistical learning to second language acquisition -- Statistical learning and syntax: What can be learned, and what difference does meaning make? -- Statistical construction learning: Does a Zipfian problem space ensure robust language learning? -- Can we enhance domain-general learning abilities to improve language function? -- Conscious versus unconscious learning of structure -- How implicit is statistical learning? -- What Bayesian modelling can tell us about statistical learning: What it requires and why it works -- Evolutionary perspectives on statistical learning -- Statistical learning: What can music tell us? -- ''I let the music speak'': Cross-domain application of a cognitive model of musical learning -- Index