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Curtin, Suzanne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In this study, we examined the nature of infants' representations of newly encountered word forms. Using a word-object association task, we taught 14-month-olds novel three-syllable words differing in segments and stress patterns. At test, we manipulated the stress pattern of the word or the position of the stressed syllable in the word. Our…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Syllables, Infants, Intonation
Weener, Paul – 1969
The influence of two aspects of language structure, syntax and associativity, on the free recall of verbal messages was investigated. (Syntax refers to the rules for ordering words within sentences; associativity refers to the network of meaningful relationships which exist among words in a language.) Twenty-four children from each of grades…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Intonation