Infants' Preference for the Predominant Stress Patterns of English Words
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One critical aspect of language acquisition is the development of a lexicon that associates sounds and meanings; but developing a lexicon first requires that the infant segment utterances into individual words. How might the infant begin this process? The present study was designed to examine the potential role that sensitivity to predominant stress patterns of words might play in lexical development. In English, by far the majority of words have stressed (strong) initial syllables. Experiment 1 of our study demonstrated that by 9 months of age American infants listen significantly longer to words with strong/weak stress patterns than to words with weak/strong stress patterns. However, Experiment 2 showed that no significant preferences for the predominant stress pattern appear with 6-month-old infants, which suggests that the preference develops as a result of increasing familiarity with the prosodic features of the native language. In a third experiment, 9-month-olds showed a preference for strong/weak patterns even when the speech input was low-pass filtered, which suggests that their preference is specifically for the prosodic structure of the words. Together the results suggest that attention to predominant stress patterns in the native language may form an important part of the infant's process of developing a lexicon.
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Infants are likely to use a number of different types of information in tandem to discover word boundaries, including prosodic cues and silences at the ends of utterances.
“Infants are likely to use a number of different types of information in tandem to discover word boundaries, including prosodic cues and silences at the ends of utterances (e.g.Mehler et al., 1990;Jusczyk et al., 1993;Morgan and Saffran, 1995;Aslin et al., 1996;Christiansen et al., 1998).”
From Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults (1999) · cites this paper as Jusczyk et al., 1993
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- Authors
- Jusczyk, P. W., Cutler, A., & Redanz, N. J.
- Affiliations
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- ORCID
- Cutler, Anne
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1993-06
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 675
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2124973255
- Cited by
- 981
- References
- 56
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- FWCI
- 38.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (2r01hd015795-21)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD HD-15795)
- 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
- vocabulary development, stress patterns, prosody, English word, infant speech perception, low-pass filtered speech, language acquisition
- MeSH terms
- Psychology, Child, Female, Humans, Infant, Language, Male, Phonetics, Speech, Speech Acoustics, Verbal Behavior, Vocabulary
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