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Bergelson, Elika; Swingley, Daniel – Child Development, 2018
To understand spoken words, listeners must appropriately interpret co-occurring talker characteristics and speech sound content. This ability was tested in 6- to 14-months-olds by measuring their looking to named food and body part images. In the "new talker" condition (n = 90), pictures were named by an unfamiliar voice; in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Processing, Infant Behavior, Food
van Heugten, Marieke; Krieger, Dena R.; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Efficient language use involves the capacity to flexibly adjust to varied pronunciations of words. Although children can contend with some accent variability before their second birthday, it is currently unclear when and how this ability reaches its mature state. In a series of five experiments, we examine the developmental trajectory of toddlers'…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Nonstandard Dialects, Vocabulary Development, Pronunciation

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