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Tsui, Angeline Sin Mei; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Fennell, Christopher T. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Associative word learning, the ability to pair a concept to a word, is an essential mechanism for early language development. One common method by which researchers measure this ability is the Switch task (Werker, Cohen, Lloyd, Casasola, & Stager, 1998), wherein infants are habituated to 2 word-object pairings and then tested on their ability…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Infants
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Feng, Ye; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The ability to map similar sounding words to different meanings alone is far from enough for successful speech processing. To overcome variability in the speech signal, young learners must also recognize words across surface variations. Previous studies have shown that infants at 14 months are able to use variations in word-internal cues (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Developmental Stages, Phonology, Intonation