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Yoshida, Katherine; Rhemtulla, Mijke; Vouloumanos, Athena – Cognitive Science, 2012
The roles of linguistic, cognitive, and social-pragmatic processes in word learning are well established. If statistical mechanisms also contribute to word learning, they must interact with these processes; however, there exists little evidence for such mechanistic synergy. Adults use co-occurrence statistics to encode speech-object pairings with…
Descriptors: Evidence, Infants, Reading Difficulties, Cognitive Processes
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Singh, Leher; Morgan, James L.; White, Katherine S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Infants prefer to listen to happy speech. To assess influences of speech affect on early lexical processing, 7.5- and 10.5-month-old infants were familiarized with one word spoken with happy affect and another with neutral affect and then tested on recognition of these words in fluent passages. Infants heard all passages either with happy affect…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Processing, Infants, Familiarity