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Zébulon Goriely; Andrew Caines; Paula Buttery – Journal of Child Language, 2025
We compare two frameworks for the segmentation of words in child-directed speech, PHOCUS and MULTICUE. PHOCUS is driven by lexical recognition, whereas MULTICUE combines sub-lexical properties to make boundary decisions, representing differing views of speech processing. We replicate these frameworks, perform novel benchmarking and confirm that…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition
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Jiuzhou Hao; Vasiliki Chondrogianni; Patrick Sturt – Journal of Child Language, 2025
The present study investigated whether children's difficulty with non-canonical structures is due to their non-adult-like use of linguistic cues or their inability to revise misinterpretations using late-arriving cues. We adopted a priming production task and a self-paced listening task with picture verification, and included three Mandarin…
Descriptors: Child Language, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Mandarin Chinese