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Weitzman, Raymond S. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2007
A major focus of research on language acquisition in infancy involves experimental studies of the infant's ability to discriminate various kinds of speech or speech-like stimuli. This research has demonstrated that infants are sensitive to many fine-grained differences in the acoustic properties of speech utterance. Furthermore, these empirical…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Research Needs, Verbal Stimuli
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Napolitano, Amanda C.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Child Development, 2004
When presented simultaneously with equally discriminable, but unfamiliar, visual and auditory stimuli, 4-year-olds exhibited auditory dominance, processing only auditory information ( Sloutsky & Napolitano, 2003). The current study examined factors underlying auditory dominance. In 6 experiments, 4-year-olds (N181) were presented with auditory and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Auditory Stimuli, Preschool Children, Visual Stimuli