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Lexical Neighborhoods and the Word-Form Representations of 14-Month-Olds
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The degree to which infants represent phonetic detail in words has been a source of controversy in phonology and developmental psychology. One prominent hypothesis holds that infants store words in a vague or inaccurate form until the learning of similar-sounding neighbors forces attention to subtle phonetic distinctions. In the experiment reported here, we used a visual fixation task to assess word recognition. We present the first evidence indicating that, in fact, the lexical representations of 14- and 15-month-olds are encoded in fine detail, even when this detail is not functionally necessary for distinguishing similar words in the infant's vocabulary. Exposure to words is sufficient for well-specified lexical representations, even well before the vocabulary spurt. These results suggest developmental continuity in infants' representations of speech: As infants begin to build a vocabulary and learn word meanings, they use the perceptual abilities previously demonstrated in tasks testing the discrimination and categorization of meaningless syllables.
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- Swingley, D., & Aslin, R. N.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-09
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 480-484
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2101483414
- Cited by
- 383
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 20.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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