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Word Segmentation in Monolingual Infants Acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French: Native Language, Cross-Dialect, and Cross-Language Comparisons
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Polka, Linda; Sundara, Megha – Infancy, 2012
In five experiments, we tested segmentation of word forms from natural speech materials by 8-month-old monolingual infants who are acquiring Canadian French or Canadian English. These two languages belong to different rhythm classes; Canadian French is syllable-timed and Canada English is stress-timed. Findings of Experiments 1, 2, and 3 show that…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Syllables, Monolingualism
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
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Houston-Price, Carmel; Caloghiris, Zoe; Raviglione, Eleonora – Infancy, 2010
Halberda (2003) demonstrated that 17-month-old infants, but not 14- or 16-month-olds, use a strategy known as mutual exclusivity (ME) to identify the meanings of new words. When 17-month-olds were presented with a novel word in an intermodal preferential looking task, they preferentially fixated a novel object over an object for which they already…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism