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Infants' Preference for the Predominant Stress Patterns of English Words

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Jusczyk, Peter W., Cutler, Anne, Redanz, Nancy J.·1993·Child Development
DOI 10.2307/1131210
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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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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)
DOI
10.2307/1131210
OpenAlex
W2124973255
Cited by
981
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 35 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 87 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 50 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 40 · 2012: 42
FWCI
38.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
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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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