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Perceptual strategies in prelingual speech segmentation

Goodsitt, Jan V., Morgan, James L., Kuhl, Patricia K.·1993·Journal of Child Language
DOI 10.1017/s0305000900008266
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Previous work has suggested that infants may segment continuous speech by a BRACKETING STRATEGY that segregates portions of the speech stream based on prosodic cues to their endpoints. The two present studies were designed to assess whether infants also can deploy a CLUSTERING STRATEGY that exploits asymmetries in transitional probabilities between successive elements, aggregating elements with high transitional probabilities and identifying points of low transitional probabilities as boundaries between units. These studies examined effects of the structure and redundancy of speech context on infants' discrimination of two target syllables using an operant head-turning procedure. After discrimination training on the target syllables in isolation, discrimination maintenance was tested when the target syllables were embedded in one of three contexts. Invariant Order contexts were structured to promote clustering, whereas the Redundant and Variable Order contexts were not. Thirty-six seven-month-olds were tested in Experiment I, in which stimuli were produced with varying intonation contours; 36 eight-month-olds were tested in Experiment 2, in which stimuli were produced with comparable flat pitch contours. In both experiments, performance of the three groups was equivalent in an initial 20-trial test. However, in a second 20-trial test, significant improvements in performance were shown by infants in the Invariant Order condition. No such gains were shown by infants in the other two conditions. These studies suggest that clustering may complement bracketing in infants' discovery of units of language.

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  • Parents present new words in a great variety of contexts, which would highlight the internal transitional probabilities of the new words against the backdrop of a variety of contexts.

    “They also present new words in a great variety of contexts, which would highlight the internal transitional probabilities of the new words against the backdrop of a variety of contexts (58).”

    From A new view of language acquisition (2000) · cites this paper as [58]

  • One type of cue that is likely to be particularly useful in word segmentation is statistical information derived from the distribution of patterns of sounds.

    “One type of cue that is likely to be particularly useful in word segmentation is statistical information derived from the distribution of patterns of sounds (Hayes and Clark, 1970;Goodsitt et al., 1993;Christophe et al., 1994;Brent and Cartwright, 1996;Saffran et al., 1996a;Saffran et al., 1996b;Saffran et al., 1997;Aslin et al., 1998;Christiansen et al., 1998).”

    From Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults (1999) · cites this paper as Goodsitt et al., 1993

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Authors
Goodsitt, J. V., Morgan, J. L., & Kuhl, P. K.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Brown University (US)
Corresponding author
Morgan, James L.
ORCID
Kuhl, Patricia K.
Venue
Journal of Child Language
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1993-06
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
229-252
ISSN
  • 0305-0009 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7602
DOI
10.1017/s0305000900008266
OpenAlex
W2129928902
Cited by
155
References
36
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 5596 d)
Locations
  • Journal of Child Language (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Public Health Service (26521)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD T32-HD07151, T32HD007151)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
Keywords
infant language acquisition, clustering strategy, transition probabilities, prosodic cues, intonation contours, syllable discrimination, speech redundancy, speech context
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Age Factors, Child Language, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Infant, Language Development, Male, Phonetics, Speech Discrimination Tests, Speech Perception

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